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MISS OLIVE KAY RETURNS. HANDICAPS TOO FLATTERING. NEW ZEALANDERS’ DISADVANTAGE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Miss Olive Kay, lady golfer, who relumed from Australia yesterday, said that one thing they discovered in Australia was that handicaps in New Zealand are far too flattering. “ There is not a single lady player,” she said, “on the scratch mark in Australia, and tlie result was that none of us New Zealanders had a hope in the handicap events. We are affiliated to the Ladies’ Golf Union of England, while in Australia Hie ladies have a golf union of their own. Miss Payton thought a lot of the Australian Union, and (old me that she had a good mind to join it in Australia. Instead of playing to bogey scores as we do in New Zealand they play to par scores. There is not the slightest question but that our 1 bogey scores arc too easy, and all our handicaps should be shoved up throe or four strokes. Until this is done New Zealanders who go overseas will have no chance in handicap events.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 8
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