Hoarded the Divots.
Humorous ineidents in which' caddieS feature are thte stock basis of most golf joltes, but nothing funnier ever happened in the links than the following true story of the adventures of a former All Black, now reduced to the stately pastime of bowls by the passage of the years, who was pressed into service as a caddie at Heretaunga by one of the four elderly members of the Wellington Golf Club who make their fourball at Heretaunga a weekly feature. Protests that h'e knew nothing whatever of the game availed the former All Black nothing. He shouldiered the bag and set off. About the second hole the golfer he was caddying for chopped out a fairly weighty divot. "Pick up that divot; that's part of your job," said another club member wh'o was also caddying. Toward the end of the round the erstwhile All Black noticed his mentor replacing a divot and stamping it down. "Goodness, is that what you do with it?" asked the noviee, whose pockets were so full of treasured divots that he contemplated putting the next in the bag.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 386, 22 November 1932, Page 6
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186Hoarded the Divots. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 386, 22 November 1932, Page 6
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