Unique Golf At Waipu
Playing on the Waipu golf links a Maungaturoto golfer holed in one—but it was the wrong hole. The player’s drive from the eighth tee went astray, and, instead of proceeding in full flight down the fairway as all good drives should, the ball made for the seventh hole, some GO yards distant, and at right angles to the fairway. Settling nicely on the seventh green, the errant. “pill” trickled into the hole for the most unique “hole-in-one” Northland has seen.
There is no truth in a rumour that the player concerned was forced to pay double the usual penalty at the nineteenth.
A more legitimate achievement was that of the Waipu club’s captain and secretary, Mr D. N. McKay, who holed out in three from the first tee, a distance of 420 yards.
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Northern Advocate, 1 October 1938, Page 12
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137Unique Golf At Waipu Northern Advocate, 1 October 1938, Page 12
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