Letter Box
Open Golf
“Your golf writer says tn his report of the New Zealand Open record score: ‘A. J. Shaw won by 18 strokes at Palmerston North in 1930, but he was not competing against a strong field of overseas players, as was Nagle.’ This statement is true in itself, but it is hardly fair to Shaw, because his winning total of 284 was some of the greatest golf ever played in New Zealand. Hokowhitu conditions were wretched, with the course swept by gales and cutting rain and the greens were more like bogs. Shaw’s rounds of 68, 69, 74 and 73. to my mind, represent golf nearly as great as Kel Nagle’s 266 under perfect conditions.”—WEDGE.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 11
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118Letter Box Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 11
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