SHOULD BOYS PLAY GOLF

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 16

SHOULD BOYS PLAY GOLF

OUTSPOKEN ENGLISH VIEW The holding of the Boys’ Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie has again revived the annual controversy as to whether it should be held at all. But in spite of criticism the championship has increased steadily in magnitude and prestige, and is now accepted as one of the major events on the golfing calender. The point at issue with regard to the Boys’ Championship is not so much that hardy perennial, “Should boys play golf while they are at school?” as the question whether, granted permission to play, they should be exposed at such an early age to the strifes and turmoils of “championship” golf, and become invested with that peculiar air of grim and misplaced seriousness which it inevitably brings in its train, writes Henry Longhurst in the “Sunday Times." “I should not venture to criticise such a well-established institution as this Boys’ Championship, favoured as it is by the official blessing of the Prince of Wales, its present president, were it not for the fact that I know that I am associating myself with the considered opinion of a very large number of responsible golfers. “Those with whom I have discussed the matter this year have been, with one exception—and he was a member of the Boys’ Championship Committee