AMATEUR DEFINITION
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has issued a definition of a professional golfer as anyone who competes for v money prize, receives payment for playing, or teaches for remuneration by personal demonstration, lecturing, or allowing himself to be filmed. Tho definition operates from January 1. The following are ineligible for amateur competitions:— Firstly, professional golfers; secondly,, anyone who acted as a hired caddy above the age of 18 years; thirdly, anyone exploiting, or allowing his skill in the game to be exploited. Examples coming under the last-mentioned include anyone allowing his name or photograph to be used as advertisements;1 allowing his name to be used as the author of books or articles of which, he is not actually tho author; writing Press accounts of competitions in which he is playing, 'if journalism |be not his nominal vocation; receiving gifts or price concessions in golf equipment, or his employer's golf equipment; makers, or merchants playing in furtherance of employer's business.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 18
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165AMATEUR DEFINITION Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 18
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