KIRKWOOD’S LIFE
HIS OWN STORY In a signed article in the American pulication “Golfing,” Joe Kirkwood, Australia’s greatest golfer, tells the story of his young life:— “When I was a lad about 12 years old, my feet got itchy; I wanted to wander. There wasn't any juvenile ambition to be a famed golfer in my soul. I just wanted to go places. We had been living alongside a golf course in Australia, and I had done some caddying, but it didn’t appeal to me. There was too much walking around the same circuit for a kid with the wanderlust.
“Vardon and Ray and J. H. Taylor and James Braid, I’d heard them talk about at the course, but none of my day-dreams picked any of those golf notables as my paragon. Marco Polo and Magellan, and even the remittance men and sailors who used to touch and go around my home were the fellows whose nomadic careers struck my fancy. So, in a very casual sort of a way, one day I strolled off and didn’t come back home until I had reached young manhood.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 16
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