Queer Golf Wages

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 9

Queer Golf Wages

Victorian golfers are chuckling over a bet made by S. Daldrymple, former Royal Melbourne senior pennant player, and taken by I. Whitton, five times open champion of Australia. When Whitton, as No. 1 man for Royal Melbourne, had to meet R. Payne, leader of Victoria -lub's senior seven, Dalrymple was frankly sceptical regarding Whitton’s prospects of winning. "I’ll give you a million to one against your chances,” Dalrymple is alleged to have said. “I’ll take you—in pennies,” was Whitton's flippant ejolnder. Whitton won the match. And now he takes every opportunity of reminding Dalrymple of the debt of £4166/13/4.

Professional Golf The lot of the average British professional is not a happy one, according to a London golf writer, who says: "I find that the average golf professional makes £5 a week at certain periods of the year, but that at other times his Income is much less. He is paid a small retaining fee, the assumption being that he will make his money from teaching and selling golf balls, clubs and other articles. But golfers, instead of patronising the professional’s shop, go elsewhere for their supplies." One professional attached to a London club said that after paying the expenses of his shop he barely makes £1 a week.