Freak Golf Shots

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7063, 24 January 1933, Page 10

Freak Golf Shots

BALL PLAYED FROM TREE. AMUSING ENGLISH COMMENT. "While playing in the Pakenham district golf championship in Melbourne recently, George Reid pushed Ms drive at the second hole behind a clump of trees. He then tried a low shot to avoid the branches, but the ball struck a protruding root, bounced high in the air, and stuck in one of the top branches. Mr Reid climbed the tree and from there played the ball on to the edge of the green. Then he sank a long putt, to get a bogey four —and won the championship.

Commenting upon this feat, an English writer says:—"l have known golf balls to find many queer resting places, a bird’s nest and a player’s jacket pocket, among others. John Morrison, playing in the Wbirplesdon Social foursomes, once landed Ins ball in a low branch of a tree and played out by using his club like a billiard cue. But he and his partner lost the hole because the rules say that the ball must not be struck with any part of the club other than the head.

In a match against Cambridge at Woking, C. H. Allison had to climb on to the clubhouse roof to play a ball which his partner in the foursomes had sent there. And ho got it on to the green, which is near, and secured a half.

In Ireland once a ball lodged in a donkey’s ear; but the player didn’t get a chance to play it out, The donkey

ran and kicked and shook his head about like fury, so the ball soon dropped out. Lord Balfour, in the days when ho was Arthur Balfour, once played a ball into a tree, and ~ .so far as is known, it is still there.