GOLF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20958, 22 February 1930, Page 20

GOLF.

A. GREAT PROFESSIONAL. VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.. ■ [ ) (FeOH OtJB Own COBEESPOKDEKT.) _ LONDON, January JB. ; - •Me .9'- W ‘ Packford, writing in Sporting Life, mentions that Walter Hagen, ' tno professional golfer; who won the Open Championship here for the third time fast ■■ season, is to visit Australia and New Zealand in the near future. realised,” says Mr Packford, that Wally* is insurable; that the man Jinn™’ l ? su « d ', his hands and feet for £20,000; who in the past on one occasion' employed a, detective to arouse him in ume to . play in a certain important/ match; and who, on his first arrival over hero in 1920, announced that he had driven thousands of balls into the sea in order to . keep fit, ia an indiivdual who v must be in the limelight at all costs, -> • time we shall see Hagetf. in all his glory. At the end of the touraa-: ' ment season in America he is starting oh ' a worlds tour, which will include Au§-. tralia, New Zealand, the- Philippine islands, and possibly Japan. He will leave accompanied by his valet, his private caddie, half a dozen huge trunks, literally smothered with the Stars and. Stripes,' and a special bag of clubs that would test the strength of an ordinary man to lift. cV He wiL arrive at each of. his destinations as would a conqueror entering £ aew country; he will 'receive.' his hostsl vnth real dignity, and he may condescend to acceo* their hospitality, although,, of course. pieviously he -will have taken thb 1 chief suite of rooms-in the leading hotels We teahy cannot be angry with the for he is not only a magnificent golfer-,* but a showman the like of whom we male never Fee again.”- - ||