GOLF AND DRILL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 586, 27 December 1915, Page 3

GOLF AND DRILL.

AN ILLUSION DISPELLED.

One of the well-worn gulling formulas ]i:is always been that any sort of physical training was absolutely superfluous, if not positively harmful to tho game. In this connection (says the golf correspondent of the "Yorkshire Post") it is rather interesting to hear what has been the experience of golfers who are getting an occasional taste of the game in their rare moments of leisure in preparing actively to defend their country. One of these, a golfer who just missed representing his 'Varsity, and has since figured in north country team events, says he has never played golf quite so well as now, when reveille turns him out of his tent in the very earliest hours of the morning on military duties, and golf is the Inst, thing in the world to be considered. But with the splendid physical fitness resultant on trench digging- and route inarch-

ing and life in the open air, instead of behind closed walls, has come a greatly increased ability to hit the ball 6 as it should be hit, and to defeat, opponents who in other days would have been well beyond his powers.