TO GOLF BY AIR.
GROWING ENGLISH HABIT. PRINCE SETS EXAMPLE. LONDON, Dec. 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 tlie need to cater for 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 there. Several of the members owr. aeroplanes and when one was asked whether flying upset his golf in the same way as a fast drivo in a car leads to unsteadiness on the putting green, he replied, "Not in tho slightest." In the clubhouse at Sonning there is a 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 of the propeller is badly cracked, the result of an injury caused by a pencil which was blown from the pilot's hand while he was leaning notes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21069, 31 December 1931, Page 7
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195TO GOLF BY AIR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21069, 31 December 1931, Page 7
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