Sea Shells Under St. Andrew’s

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 31, 11 December 1950, Page 4

Sea Shells Under St. Andrew’s

I The son of the man who sold the land on which St. Andrew’s golf course is laid out wishes to dig for sea shells under the 16th fairway under his right contained in the Links Act of 1894. There are enough queer hazards in golf without someone digging up the fairway. It has been said that golf is the only game in which the player has himself to blame for a poor show. But on the Putaruru course a player ran his ball on to the green only to see a pig seize it and run off. Another player had a ball chewed by a cow, and still another had his ball stopped by a hare. At Port Elizabeth, South Africa, a man had teed up his ball, and swun£ X take the drive. At that moment another player played an approach shot but sliced badly. The ball made straight for the first man’s ball, and arived at the very instant that the club descended. To the player’s amazement, he drove two balls where one had been resting a fraction of a second before. Both balls left the club, and were found 90 yards away in the rough. What do the rules say about that problem?