GOLF FOR SCHOOLGIRLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23033, 10 May 1938, Page 12

GOLF FOR SCHOOLGIRLS

INNOVATION IN ENGLAND PROFESSIONAL AS COACH Girls will bo golfers these days—so Heathfield School, Ascot, England, is to have a course of its own. It will be opened officially some time in May. Around its six cunning greens the "debs" of the future will be taught another of the "social graces"—for Heathfield is recognised as society's "nursery," and parents have asked that their daughters should be taught golf. Many of the girls there play golf already, but one of their worries is that they get out of practice in term time. Several have competed in the junior championships. Now the game is to have a prominent place on tho sports curriculum. Cricket will still be played, but it is expected tlult the clubhouse will become more popular than the pavilion. There will be a male professional—dour Angus Macdonald from the neighbouring Swinley Forest Club—and he will see that the girls swing just as their brothers do. There will be interhouse matches _ and perhaps interschool competitions if other schools follow Heathfield's example. A 10 handicap man, Major Skyrme, tho school bursar, is largely responsible for the scheme.