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GOLF AS A HEALTH EXERCISE.

The noble game cf golf may be said to have spread with leaps and bounds during the past half a dozen years. Golf links are springing up everywhere, and the vision of a man struggling under a burden of club 3 is now as common as the picture of the flannel-jacketed tennisplayer of a few years ago. Golf seems in a great measure to have put tennis into the background. One reason for this is that the doctors now recommend patients with torpid livers and lazy blood to try golf, and they try it, and with tho very best effects in many cases. Doubtless fashion enters not a little into the matter, and that Jones is fired with ambition to become a golf player when he see 3 the success of Robinson. Golf lias one great charm above many other outdoor games. It can be played equally as well in the wintorasthesnmmor. Thegame lias also this advantage : that it is played without violence and undue exertion like football, and, therefore, it is an old man’s game as well as a young one’s. It gives just exercise enough, and not too much, and it leads a man to walk without being aware of the fact that lie is walking so far or so fast as he really is doing. Every available bit of space for golfing purposes is being rapidly seized upon and utilised. The great objection to playing upon public heaths and commons is that there is no privacy about it, and in the second place the player, however careful he may be, is liable to injure someone. Wherever possible, therefore, the club 3 like to rent a piece of ground of their own. This lias done good to many neighbourhoods, and been the means of circulating money. There are many tracks of land well suited for golfing which are not worth ten shillings an acre for grazing or feeding purposes, and the tenants or landlords, as the case may he, are naturally only too pleased to obtain the increased revenue which tho golfers bring. Another great point in favour of tho golfer is that his advent in a neighbourhood does not lead to an introduction of the rowdy element, as is unfortunately the case in some other departments cf sport. Bell's Weekly Messenger.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 8

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GOLF AS A HEALTH EXERCISE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 8

GOLF AS A HEALTH EXERCISE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 8