FLATTERING HANDICAPS
WHY GOLFERS FAILED MISS KAY RETURNS FROM AUSTRALIA Press Association. WELLINGTON. To-day. Miss Olive Kay. who returned from Australia yesterday, said that one thing the New Zealand golfers discovered in Australia was that the handicaps in New Zealand are far too flattering. “There is not a single woman player on the scratch mark in Australia,” she said, “and the result was that none of us New Zealanders had a hope in the handicap events. We are affiliated to the Ladies’ Golf Union of England, but in Australia women players have a golf union of their own. Miss Payton thought a lot of the Australian union, and told me she had a good mind to join it in Australia. “Instead of playing to bogey scores, as we do in New Zealand, they play to par scores. There is not the slightest question but that our bogey scores are too easy, and all our handicaps should be moved up three or f ur strokes. Until this is done, New Zealanders who go overseas will have no chance in the handicap events.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 9
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