EXPENSIVE HOBBY
GOLF, FOR UNSKILLED PLAYERS. For that large body of golfers—players iv. tli. plenty ol enthusiasm, but considerably less skill—the game proves something of an expensive hobby jue-t row, says a Christchurch newspaper. Th e roughs at the various courses, flourishing after the spring growth, live up to their name, and for fh e players apt to wander from the straight line —and their number i« legion—a round seems to consist of miles <f huntings for lost balls, usually with little hope of finding them again. 'there is always the con-olatjon which pauses most pollens’ hearts to. leap momentarily in the tiim.ng of someone rise’s lost ball. Sales of golf balls during th e summer must show no signs of failing-off if the experience of one non-handicap player who hits a long, but extremely erratic ball, is any criterion. He went out. to a course bast work with seven halls and , lost them alt after, covering four holes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1933, Page 8
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159EXPENSIVE HOBBY Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1933, Page 8
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