Golf

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7881, 5 July 1904, Page 5

Golf

When a man gets the golf; fever badly he is quite unable to get the game out of his thoughts sleeping or waking. He plays; it all day, practises shots after dinner on the carpet, to the detriment of • the furniture and crockery, X and • -reams about it when. he "goes: to bed. Oh,the nightZ before medal day one of these bad cases was playing in,'-great form over the links of Nod, and e__rie_. away by his sueces,. he cried' out in his :dream„V That's a grand shot 1"'; He was rudely awakened, hy/ his weeping wife, who said, Z' It may be a grand shot, but you've bled my nose." .'■'<:';■

According to Home papers just received it was expected by many of those interested that Harry' Vardon' s winning score pf 300 with the Haskell ball mthe open championship of/1903,;Zat Prest.; wick, would this year be improved upon, so that Jack .White's^score of 296 for the four rounds-at SandwichZxaine, as' no surprise.' .The.reduction of the win-' hin^y score-svas.ho doubt .in. a measure due to the -use of the rubber-covered ball, which is put down in some Quarters yatfive or six.strok-s ohthe four rbundsj;