Halved in One

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21184, 3 November 1938, Page 9

Halved in One

Two double-handicap golfers nalved a hole in one during a round on the Honor Oak and Forest Hill Club’s course in England recently. At the eighth, which measures 104 yards, R. J. Derwent (handicap 16), a Brockley dentist, played a fine shot to the green, where the tin is “blind" owing to the number of grassy hummocks which surround the putting area. His partner, Mr J. Rankin (13), a dental student at Guy’s Hospital, followed suit with another good shot. When the players arrived on the green they discovered both balls in the hole. Neither man had accomplished a bole in one before. Gallery Thrilled Playing in an exhibition golf match in Australia recently against George Naismith, Bobby Locke, the South African open champion, thrilled a gallery of 1000 people by obtaining an eagle 3 at the ninth hole, a distance of 575 yards, on the Victoria Club’s course. He followed his drive with a magnificent brassle shot to within 2ift of the hole and then sank his putt. Speed of Golf Ball A query reaches us on the old topic of the speed at which a golf ball can be driven and the speed of the club head at impact says a writer in an English paper. This has been, and still is, a fruitful source of argument, and the estimates of those who do not know vary very greatly. In 1932, tests were made in America by Gene Sarazen in conjunction with a well-known motor, car manufacturing firm, which gave a club head speed of 115 m.p.h., the ball leaving the head at 130 m.p.h. That these figures were not far wrong was shown later when the speed of the club head at the moment of impact, measured by the photo-electric method, proved to be 110.5 m.p.h.