ARMLESS GOLF WONDER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 198, 24 August 1935, Page 4

ARMLESS GOLF WONDER

OVERCOMES SEVERE DISABILITY One of the gamest golfers who ever drove a ball is Tommy McAuliffe, the American armless wonder, who plays in the 80’s. He has been playing the game for 33 years without the use of his arms, which he lost in a railroad mishap when a lad of nine. But such a terrible mishap, which might have proved a calamity to most people, wasn’t such a great handicap to the gritty McAuliffe. He secured a job as caddie at the Buffalo Country Club, and thus launched his golf career. While a caddie, McAuliffe found an old midiron with a broken shaft in the club scrap pile. He had the shaft spliced together and started out to learn tho game—not in the orthodox style, but holding tho club between his neck and right shoulder. He became so adopt that he won tho club caddie title in .1912 and 1913, using borrowed clubs. He was for 11 years secretary of the Buffalo District Golf Association. When the depression came. McAuliffe entered vaudeville with a golf act, and his trouping took him around • the world. He also played golf exhibitions en route.