HOLING IN ONE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21251, 3 August 1932, Page 17

HOLING IN ONE

. OFFERINGS TO GOLFERS / Once upon a time Hint jnost glorious of Scejdenls, the doing of ;i liolc in one. involved only the modest, expenditure of about. 4s 6d for a bottle of whisky for the' player's caddie. As the game spread among thn less canny and more ostentatious English, it became almost an understood thing that the lucky player should celebrate his feat by entertaining all and sundry in the clubhouse, says a writer in Country Life. Allien this tax was, -in a measure, compensated for by ingenious manufacturers >vho offered as rewards all manner of things—cigarettes, razor blades and ginger ale. Ihe man who holed his tee f-liot was, if he had a mind to it, kept busy in fi 11ing up application forms and sending in statements signed by the secretary of his club. This was not, perhaps, a state of things in consonance with the dignity of tlie game, and now some of these too generous firms have agreed, in answer to a request from the golfing unions, to discontinue their offerings. In future the 'virtue of the perfect fluko will have to he its own reward, except, presumably, the case of "Sandy" Herd, who has been promised by an admirer a putter of solid P°ld if and when he does his 20th one. /Up till now he has done 18 or 19 and he ia only 64 this year.