GOLF IN JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1936, Page 3

GOLF IN JAPAN

•*♦«» “A RICH MAN’S GAME.” ; SYDNEY, rune 8. Impressions of golf in Japan were recounted by Mr Harold Campbell, manager ol the Australian golf professionals’ team which visited America recently, who has returned to Sydney after a short tour of Japan. He said Mr Kan lima, president of the Japa-, nese Golf Association, had urged that an Australian team should visit J a pan next year, and that the visit should later be returned. The Japanese clubs were prepared to finance such a tour, the Australian team to comprise four players. il Golf is a rich mail’s game in Japan,” said Mr Campbell. “To play it gives one social standing. Tire courses are kept in perfect order, labour being very cheap. It is common to see women weeding and rolling the greens, their pay being about ninepence a day. The caddies are polite, bowing to one belore and after one plays a round. “Although the standad of play m Japan is not as high as that in Australia, they are improving rapidly. The Japanese sent a team to America in 1934, and two of the players, Torcha Tocla and Chic Chiu, were so successful that they left again for the United States shortly after their return to Japan.”