Golf On An Empty Stomach

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 15

Golf On An Empty Stomach

QOME terse words on the subject of food—or lack of it—will be uttered by Mr C. M. Turner, of Rangiora, when next the New Zealand Golf Association’s council gathers in Wellington. Mr Turner, as Canterbury’s representative on the council, will raise the-mat-ter of the Canterbury Freyberg Rose Bowl team being hustled from the last green of its Saturday morning match to the first tee of its afternoon game without the benefit of the scheduled half-hour lunch break. “As fast as our players came in they were bumped out on to the first tee—and

I don’t think that .is good enough,” he said last week. “To add insult to injury they were kept sitting on the first tee (the match started at the tenth) through a pile- - up in the field, yet when we came in there was lots of daylight left The position was aggravated by the fact that afternoon tea was off by the time we came in.” Playing 36 holes without eating could well make the difference between winning and losing the Rose Bowl, he added. Mr Turner will be speak-* ing from the heart at Wellington. As paddy for E. H. M. Richards at Hokowhitu he had time for only a pie between matched—“and it sat like lead on my stomach the whole afternoon.”