INDOOR GOLF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 2

INDOOR GOLF.

An indoor golf club which is probably unique, has just been opened in the Champs Elysees, Paris. The putting greens, made of turf from Dieppe, are in the middle of the main hall, with dining tables round them. I In the annexe a large canvas tunnel, | illuminated at night, gives opportunity for practice drives of 40 yards. When the balls- hit the curtain at the end they fall on to.an inclined plane which returns them to the tee by a chute. There are ingenious bunkers of dif- i ''erent shapes faced with real turf, and practice in approach shots is afforded under various conditions. French and British professionals are available for lessons. Membership of the new indoor golf club is restricted to members of the best known Paris clubs and their friends. Two hundred and fifty people have already applied to join. The. scheme originated with a group of Paris golfers who, unable to go to a golf course more than once a week, wish to have daily practice. Meals are served at the club, and after-dinner golf practice is expected to take its place among recognised Paris amusements this winter. ————— \ Mr P. G. Wodehouse's public is now a very large-one, says a Home paper in a review of the "Clicking of . GutVibert," iiis latest work..-- it mainly con- ■ cists of short -stCTies which have alreadyjiopes'/eiT in print, chiefly in the excellent Strand Magazine. They all have a background of golf, which lends itself I admirably to Mr Wodehouse's curious humour and marvellous command of the dialect of Percy and Cuthbert. Although this is about the tenth of Mr Wodehouse's books, and although these stories are all about golf, a?id although golf has been exploited by hundreds of writers and is the subject of thousands of jokes and stories, only the utterly jaded reader will be able to refrain from chuckles overe these stories told by the oldest member.