To Golf by Air
GROWING ENGLISH HABIT. PRINCE SETS EXAMPLE. LONDON, Dee. 24. Since the Prince of Wales has begun flying to golf, this habit has been growing in England among busy men who ■want to reach the course in the quickest possible time. Golf club secretaries are now realising the need to cater foi flying golfers and at the well-known course at Sonning there is a fine level quarter of a mile of turf beside the sixth fairway. At week-ends there are often three or four aeroplanes parked itliere. Several of the members own aeroplanes and when one was asked whether flying upset his golf in the same way as a fast drive in a car leads to unreadiness on the putting green, he replied, “Not in the slightest.” In the clubhouse at Sonning there is b curious trophy which is competed for annually in a match between Sonning and an Air Force team. This is the propeller of the first pterodactyl (or tailless) aeroplane. One blade oi the propeller is badly cracked, the result of an injury caused by a pencil which was blown from the pilot’s hand while ihe was making notes.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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195To Golf by Air Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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