Third stroke unlucky
NZPA London In the 12 years since he took up golf Howard Hewitt had a feeling ’in his bones that one day something remarkable would happen to him on the golf course — and it did, several times.
On a par three hole on his home course at the New Forest, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, the 66-year-old retired civil servant holed in one, the “Sunday Express” re-
ported yesterday. And on the following day at the nearby Bramshaw club, Mr Hewitt, who plays off a handicap of 11, holed in one again. But as he and his colleagues stood on the green discussing the odds against holing in one two days running, a ball played from an adjoining fairway struck him on the back of the head and laid him out cold.
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Press, 7 June 1982, Page 24
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