GOLF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13327, 5 May 1914, Page 5

GOLF.

V A 'VISIT -TO WESTWARD 7 HO.

11. • n. Lusk, foi-rtieviy of . ChriMclmrcfi, ami now of Clifton, Knjrlnnd, writes very inli*iv.-tiiißly of n trip, to play at Westward Uo, tho w-'oi'ld-fjimi'd. links. Inter alia lu> says:— -'When 1.-camefto this country 1 promised myself sqmo games on a few 'of the best links, and to none was I drawn more j-trongly than to Westward Ho. Few followers of the game, even m the furthest *part of the world, have not s-ome of the famous North Devon links. All have heard of their lui'f; llj-xir hunkers, and, above all, their l-uslie.s. 1 can now voucli for the existence of all these things, es pociaily the rii^hes^-i;evei;al good balls tliat were mine are m them still. .The. district Is of considerable interest quite apart from the links. I was shown Charles Kingsley's house at Bhleford; I saw the fpiay whence Amyas Leigh and Sir Richard Grenville sailed; I heard, as Kingsley did, "the bar and its moanins:",- I even saw the'school where Stalky and Co. disported themselves m .ways that schoolboys nowadays df) not' emu lale. The geologist would find interest! m Ihe remarkable pebble ridge, and tlie student of the. past m such old-world places as Applcdoro and Clovelly. it was, however, to the Northern Burrows that I was drawn, and a toy-train took me m a few minutes to the club-house. This quite adequate and comfortable structure stands on the edge of the burrows, and looks out to sea over the pebble ridge. The secretary, Major Newton-King." n cousin. 1 understand-, of the welltknown Taranaki I'esident. treated me. a.s a 'friend' and brother— as indeed everyone did. In a few minutes I • was booked, un for a week with entirely desirable opponents, and I was soon as much at home as if T had been at Shirley. I was told by several members that tlie Major was the best secretary m England, and I find no difficulty m, believing it. l think the feature that struck .me most was the punishment that awaited the almost 'good shot. The generous nature of the bunkering .would startle a player who knew only New Zealand courses, rfnd I think I hear tho argument lhat golf was not intended for the scratch -players alone. Many others play Here and seem to enjoy it."