GOLFING IN FOG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22389, 8 April 1936, Page 21

GOLFING IN FOG

ENGLISH TOURNEY CHECKED Thick fog which rendered serious golf impossible brought to a premature conclusion play at Croham Hurst, South Croydon, in the £2OO challenge golf match between Essex Union and Croydon Alliance. Eight leading professionals, among them Alfred Perry, open champion, and throe other Uycler Cup players, groped their way through the mists in the foursomes, and toward tho end of the round visibility was reduced to 30 yards. After luncheon there was no improvement in the conditions, and it was decided to postpone tlie singles. Essex had the bettor of such golf as was possible, for whereas Bert Hodson and Allan Dailey finished only 1 down to Alfred Padgham and W. J. Cox* the other Essex pair, James Adams and C. S. Denny, were 8 up on Perry and W. Laidlaw at the end of the round Four hundred spectators saw little of the play. Tho players were ghostlike figures in the fog, and frequently the sound of clubhead meeting ball was the only evidence that there was a match in progress. Straight driving was merely a matter of chance, and in approaching the greens they just hit the ball and hoped for the best. On one occasion Dailev put down an open umbrella on the fairway to give him direction to the hole, and Hodson, aiming for tho loft ■of the first green, finished 50 yards to the right!