BLIND GOLFER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 452, 4 January 1934, Page 2

BLIND GOLFER

HANDICAP OF 20 London, Dec. 24. W. H. J. Oxenham, an osteopath, of Brighton, claims to be the first blind golfer who has been given a handicap of twenty by the West Hove Club. He was blinded in both eyes on the Somme in 1 917 *. ’ T , . “My' chauffeur, whom I take for a caddie, tees up for me, tells me where t the ball lies, and the direction of the hole/- he told the Daily Mail. “Then .he hands me a club, I know by it i how far away the hole is, and play accordingly. , ‘‘When the time comes for putting the chauffeur tells me the distance, and sometimes my opponents help by rattling the tin.” , , am Yesterday Oxenham went out in 4(, and once he got out in 42. He started playing Only two years ago, when a doctor . friend handed him a club on the links, and told him the direction of the hole. He did that first hole in bogey. Now he plays regularly twice a week. 0 - V , ■