NICE POINT IN GOLF
BALL LANDS ON HEDGEHOG (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday Playing in an open golf tournament at the Waitikiri links yesterday, H. M. S. Dawson, of the Harewood Club, drove a good ball from the 13th tee. After landing, the ball rolled some distance and then came to a stop on the back of a live hedgehog. At first Dawson tried to move the hedgehog, but it refused to budge, so he picked up the ball and dropped it clear. That cost him two strokes penalty and he lost the hole. There was talk in the clubhouse later whether Dawson should have been penalised, as the rule states: “If a ball lodge in anything moving, a ball shall be dropped as near as possible to the spot where the object was when the ball lodged in it, without penalty.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21082, 8 April 1940, Page 12
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