GOLF CLUBS LOST AND RECOVERED

Southland Times, Issue 23287, 25 August 1937, Page 6

GOLF CLUBS LOST AND RECOVERED

EXPERIENCE OF MR C. J. WARD

Within 10 days of leaving to play in the Australian golf championships at Sydney, Mr C. J. Ward, of Christchurch, was without a set of golf clubs. After playing at Shirley on Saturday afternoon he brought his . clubs into town, and left them in a car in the city. When he returned to the car he found that the clubs had disappeared. However, on Monday Mr Ward received a telephone message from a second-hand dealer in Colombo street that she had a bag of clubs answering the description of the set which was removed. Mr Ward investigated, finding that they were the lost clubs. Mr Ward had acquired a new set of wooden clubs and had played only one round with them before they disappeared. With the Australian championships starting in a few days, he was placed in an awkward predicament for having entered for the championships and with the limited time remaining he would not have been able to buy a new set and practise with it.

As if to show that he was not greatly affected by the loss, Mr Ward on Sunday borrowed a set from a younger brother and played at Richmond Hill. Though it was his first round on the course for a considerable time he finished in 66, the bogey figures of the course, which have seldom been equalled.