GOLF

Northern Advocate, 13 October 1928, Page 12

GOLF

NEWS AND NOTES

While playing in the Metropolitan Women’s Championship on the Baltusrol couise, Now York, Miss Helen Seitz got what was probably the oddest-hole-in-ono ever scored. The famous fourth hole is 120 yards in length and has absolutely no fairway, just water from tee to green, with the green only slightly above the water level. Miss Seitz, playing in the championship, topped her ball and it skipped along the surface of the water, struck the edge of the green, hopped up and then dribbled into the hole.

Captain Brock Putnam, U.S. Cavalry, stationed in New York City and a resident of Plainfield, N.J., claims the wo]ld’s golf endurance record. He completed 252 holes of golf on the links of the Plainfield Country Club in a single day. The previous world’s record for one day’s play was 234 holes. Stopping only once for a change of clothes and a brief meal, Captain Putnam played from 4.45 a.m. until 7 p.m. He averaged about 84 strokes for each of his 18 hole rounds and was followed by scores of persons throughout the day. At the finish he ficempd strong and declared he could have played a few more hours. Captain Putnam is in his early thirties, wiry of build and of medium height.

They tell this tale of a delightful English golfing resort which is frequently visited by an evening mist off the Channel. One of the keenest golfers in the place was an elderly fellow who always wore a rod jacket such as was do rigour about 1890. One day he was observed to have at long last shod this sartorial relic and someone asked him why. “Well," bo answered, “last night as I was standing waiting at the bus terminus, a lady came up and tried to post a letter in mv mouth.’’