TIPS FOR CADDIES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 14

TIPS FOR CADDIES

Costly Feature of Golf A PROBLEM IN ENGLAND (Reuter— Special to “The Dominion.”) London, March 9. On the even of a new golf season the question of tipping caddies has been revived. First-class golf should be made less expensive—that is the prevailing idea. More than a dozen clubs around London are considering the suggestion that tipping should be stfictly prohibited. The real responsibility for the excessive tip rests with the golfer himself. It Is the one thing making a rule; quite another thing trying to enforce it. Not long ago a well-known Londin club fixed the sum of two shillings as the limit of tipping for a day’s golf. Although members were notified that the committee would take serious notice of any breach of the regulation, it was dead in a month. At some of the wealthy London clubs fourball matches are played where the stake is £5 a corner, and the tip to the caddies on the winning side is £1 each. In the case' of one London club, it was urged that while it was easy to deal with the caddie where tipping was detected, it was not so easy to take disciplinary action, such as dismissal from the club, against a member. What of the players, it was asked, who won a competition or match, and emerged richer by the sweep money or the stake involved. Would he not resent being debarred from giving the caddie something in addition to the fixed foe?

The committee finally decided that, while the usual procedure of a fee plus a tip should remain, members should be earnestly requested to limit the tip to a reasonable sum—l/6 per round in the case of first-class, and 1/- per round for second-class caddies, with a further request that in no case should a player give more than an additional 6d. A first-class caddie will thus receive 4/- fee. plus 3/- tip, for two rounds, the charges to include lunch money and the cleaning of clubs.