FERRIER MAY PLAY MATCHES IN N.Z.
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. July 23. Last year’s professional golf champion in America, Jim Ferrier, of Australia. may play exhibition matches in New Zealand on his way back to the United States. He arrived by the Marine Phoenix today on his way to Australia, where he will play 30 exhibition matches. The professional championship at Detroit last year attracted a record of 52,800 people. Ferrier defeated players of the statue of Lloyd Mangrum and Claude Harmon. He described the driving of Chick Narbutt as the hardest he had ever seen. Ferrier thought the New Zealanders like Brian Silk and John Hornabrook were as good as anybody in America, but, golf could not be of the same standard in Australia and New Zealand as in America because of the fewer number of players of international standard.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22698, 24 July 1948, Page 6
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