GOLF
IV.HAT BOBBY J ONES RECKONS
JOYCE WETHERED IS GREATEST LIVING GOLFER
Who is the greatest living golfer? Tlie answer which Bobby Jones, winner of the • open and amateur championships of both Great Britain and the Cnited States of America, gave to that question, put to him recently, was "Joyce. Wethered.” Jones., added .that if Joyce Wethered had been bom a-man she —or should the pronoun be ‘‘lie”? —would have ruled the world of golf. .The style, technique, and general (efficiency the English girl is the world’s best player, mail or woman.
Bobby Jones ployed a round of golf with Joyce Wethered at St. Andrews.
"1 could ; not help feeling,” he said, “that I had never played golf with anyone, amateur or professional who made me feel so .utterly* outclassed. I have.no hesitation is saying- that, accounting for the unavoidable, handicap of a woman’s lesser physical strength, she is the finest golfer I have ever seen.”
NOTES AND NEWS
Although it was a notable event for two brothers, viz., H. A. and J. *L. Black, to meet in the final of the New Zealand amateur golf championship it . appears not without .precedent as it was-at first thought, ft is stated that the finalists for the [Dominion title decided; at One Tree llill, Auckland, in 1905,' were A. D. S. T)rirican arid K. Duncan.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 11
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