UNSKILLED GOLFERS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 7

UNSKILLED GOLFERS

AN EXPENSIVE HOBBY. , • —. ■ For that large body of golfers—players with plenty of enthusiasm, but considerably less skill—the game proves something of an expensive. hobby just now, says a Christchurch newspaper. The roughs at the various courses, flour-: ishing after the spring growth, live up to their name, and for the players apt to wander from the straight line— and their number is legion—a round - seems to consist of miles of hunting for lost balls, usually with little hope of finding them again. There is always the consolation which causes most golfers’ hearts to leap momentarily in the finding of someone else’s lost ball. Sales of golf balls during the summer must show no signs of falling-off if the experience of one non-handicap player who hits a long but extremely erratic tell is any criterion. He went out ; to 'a course last week with seven balls and lost them all after covering four bolas; . ... ■ .