LOST LURE OF THE LINKS

Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 4

LOST LURE OF THE LINKS

The Duke of Windsor, 1 hear, has practically given up golf as a recreation (writes our London correspondent, April 4). It used to be an obsession with him, but the opportunities of meeting really first-class players did not often present themselves while he was in the tropics. Even now that he is back in France the lure of the links has scarcely returned. He used to be a very fair player, though he never achieved his ambition of getting

his handicap low enough to entitle him to enter for the amateur championship. His trouble always was that he had too many teachers. Archie Compston,of Coombe Hill, was for a long time his principal mentor, but he sought frequent lessons also from James 1 Braiil and other leading, professionals,, not to mention a wounded ex-soldier, from* whom he sought instruction at the public nets at Regent's Park. There was scarcely any leading American professional, moreover, from whom at one time or another he did.not seek advice for the improvement of his game.