THE BEST GOLF STORY ON RECORD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 300, 9 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BEST GOLF STORY ON RECORD.

REMARKABLE INCIDENT AT BALMORAL. The following extraordinary golf story is printed by the English “Field,” which vouches for its accuracy : —■ A distinguished member of the King’s staff was playing recently on the links at Balmoral. -At a critical moment in Iris match he apparently failed to loft his ball so iiiiicli as he may have intended in making an approach stroke. His ball was soon to strike a cow, which slowly moved a .’ay without gi*. ing any other indication that she hid undergone any tmimisl oxo'rie'.iee. Mhen the i:i:iy. r < amo to ; ii-’ spot vmnted by the cow. his ball was not to he found. Not unnaturally eti rn- <■ I towards the cow with an irr v ! ,»h may he presumed to have mingled question with npolcgy. The row depri'cntingly shock her head, if to deciare with deer, ••gre* th rd she could offer no suggostiun 1.) ;ijtil:’.ver’s dil'iciiltii • or th" eri-inr .’ii:s'lo. 'ITT nio’.-.-’meiit._ Iwarer, di~i • I the ball from her right rar. Sumo other curious inctan-os I an>r. rds intruding in golf mitcucs ai I’dded by the “Field.’’ Oii'-o a verv long drivr nlaving >n the Ea'-f'T mel ting of the Royal North Devon Chib at AVc-stwnrd Ho! picked oir a sheen which was gracing on the ' !:'?■ of the notorious fifth bunker. I” - nnii'.id. mJ nod and sho-ked hv t’-,' b'-.w, ami observing that its lamb was grazing b'-tween it and the place from -imb-h th,, blow lied come, ininginod its<if to l-o tb-' victim of filial disnstu -I. and hutted its innowit offspring ir.'r-r tin' (Hlf into the snm’L k'd’Y IS ' f <■’ Z 1 ' •) p’ < r.-'-L V vi.*. v -r, n n svvf'-.’-'Stnk*- ‘lt HovCi..., rm IT irnT:". Before the b.n!! cruv”' io rest nft.-r the first drive, th' l dog iiii-’.i-d it on riii l did not stall til! I-, ’ml c.T.fiiiJ it ori the puitingt i-ci-n. A two at a five holo was .a fiT' start for a mul.-il round, and the •• Ivanfagr criined was not thrown aw.iy.