GOLF

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 13

GOLF

LOST BALLS GALORE. It is a well-attested fact (remarks a Wellington paper) that about 4000 golf balls are found on the Wellington Cmb golf links at Heretaunga annual, iy. On occasion over a hundred have been discovered in little patches of a few feet square, especially after the flooding of the small streams has subsided. or the long grass off the fairways has been cut. A case was cited of where a ball was sold to a player in the morning and resold to him again the same day, within an hour of his losing it. Caddies, who are under very strict discipline in' the matter of lost balls and attendance on the players, find literally hundreds of balls over a week-end. SPORTING INCIDENT In the play-off for second place in the British open, on which depended a medal, a spectator trod on Ted Ray’s ball at the eleventh hole, with the result that it was pressed into the soft ground. Ray appealed to the referee, Mr. H. 11. Hilton, for a decision, but Compston. coming up, himself removed the ball from the depression, so that Ray had. an excellent lie. Technically it is possible that Compston could have been disqualified for thus touching his opponent’s ball, but his was a ‘sporting action, and the best possible thing happened—the hole was halved in four.

METHOD OF PR ACTICE. Says “Auld Reekie” in the Referee: “Practising golf, into nets on a roof in Sydney is becoming remarkably popular. It is often asked whether such practise is really any good. I think it is better in , many respects than hitting a number of balls on, the course proper. The reason is that the swing can be attended to without any distractions as to length, the main thing being to hit the ball correctly. Having lessons on the roof is the idea) way to improve one’s game so far as correcting faults in the swing is concerned.