GOLF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 10

GOLF

MISS WETHERED TO VISIT AMERICA (From Uur Own Oorrea|)o/i<leut) LONDON, 4th April. Golfers of America have repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Joyce Wethered to visit them. Jones told them that as a shot player she had no equal. “She is the only player 1 have ever met who has not a weakness in her game,” he declared when he was last ill this country, It is now possible that Miss Wethered will pay a visit to America, and if she accepts the offers which have been made she will play as a professional. “If 1 go,” she told me, “I shall take part in. exhibition match and I shall accept a fee.” Miss Wethercd's position at the present time is a peculiar one, and 1 do not think it has been defined. She is engaged in a department of one of the stores in which golfing goods are sold, but I do not think this makes her a professional. She has, in .fact, continued to compete in the mixed foursomes tournament, which is one of the chief events of the season, and her right to do so has never been questioned. Now

) she has just taken part in another fourj somes competition at Sunningdale, in ! which men and women, professionals r and amateurs, paired as they pleased, and with John Morrison, the old CamI bridge triple blue, as her partner, she captured the first prize. [ | On this occasion Miss Wethercd’s golf | wys as brilliant as ever. She and.MorI rison, met all sorts of combinations on ; 1 the way to the final, and while she was A only slightly outdriven from the tee 1 1 even by first-class amateurs and proi fessiona'ls, none had her accuracy in the ! 1 second shots to the green. These with i wooden chibs reminded one of Harry j Vardon when he was at his zenith, and | they are, of course, the supreme test of the golfer. [ ; If the arrangements proposed are car- : lied out, Miss Wethered will go to ' America in May and remain for about 1 two months. She will be. accompanied ‘by. a non-golfing woman friend, and will ’ oppose the leading American women l golfers, including Miss Helen Ilicks, • who relinquished her amateur status a year ago. Possibly Miss Wethered may . also jbe persuaded, to take part in 1 matches against amateurs and professionals, and I predict that she will astonish the American golfing public.