16-Year-Old In Field Today
If golf, like bowls, seems to be becoming a young man’s game, it was startling at Shirley yesterday to see a boy who turned 16 only in July, Denis Clark, taking part in the final practice befor the New Zealand Open today.
And he will drive off this morning as one of the field’s many professionals.
Moreover, he has been a professional for more than a year, and already this disarmingly honest young man I has enjoyed some success. In June he was third equal in
a sponsored tournament in Tauranga, and last month he was third in a sponsored event at New Plymouth. .Disarmingly honest, because he admits to the fact that his one victory was in the Waikato schoolboys tournament last year, Clark says his interest in golf does not stem from any family ties with the game. His parents do not play golf. But about four to five years ago a woman living in his street decided to move from Rotorua. Before the shift, she rid herself of some unwanted goods, among them what Clark describes as “a few beat-up old golf clubs.” Clark does not use them any longer: but they have brought him to Shirley for his first Open.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30602, 19 November 1964, Page 19
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