GOLF CHAMPION
ENGLISH AMATEUR WINNER A. L. Bentley’s victory in the English amateur golf championship offers renewed hope to small-made, slirnbuilt men who despair of striking the golf ball even a moderate proportion of the maximum length.
Although a David among the Goliaths of the championship, Bentley was not troubled by a lack of length on a course measuring over 6800yds., yet he weighs scarcely nine stone. He has matched his swing to his figure; it is neat and compact, and a rather wide stance in no way interrupts its smoothness.
In addition to the apparently inexhaustible store of energy of a fit man his greatest asset was a magic wand which the sceptical identified as an ordinary golf club. With it Bentley performed wonders in moments of crisis. Each golfer carries such a wand in his bag, but it is an uncertain protection against adversity, particularly in the stress of a championship, and courage is needed to wield It in the right way.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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