Golf.
On a Summer’s day, m the garden, one is enabled to watch the busy bee, flying from flower to flower, and in some such like manner it is said are the habits of the enthusiastic golfer. Every golfer tires of his own links but loves to tread those at a distance, so that it is thought a good golf ground would be one other attraction to this town. Here there reside few who understand the game and therefore an extract’from the Century Dictionary will throw much light upon the subject. Golf is a game played over an extensive stretch of ground in which holes about four inches in diameter are placed at distances from 100 to 500 yards apart. It is played by one or two on a side, with special implements called clubs, and with balls of gutta-percha weighing Ifozs or a little less The object is to drive the ball from each hole to and into the next: and the hole or the round (usually of nine or eighteen holes) is won by the player or side that accomplishes this in the fewest strokes A considerable variety of clubs is used (the driver, sionn, deck, mbleek, according to the exigencies of the game. We should have plenty of spots to make a good golf ground around town.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1903, Page 2
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220Golf. Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1903, Page 2
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