UNIQUE CLUB RULE
PRINCE PLAYS GOLF IN UGANDA During the last round of golf which the Prince of Wales played at Jinja (Ripon Falls), Uganda, recently, he was provided with a novel experience. This Jinja course is the only one in the world which has a rule to the effect that a player whose ball lodges In the print of a hippopotamus’s foot shall be allowed to lift the ball before playing the next shot. More than once, when playing over the course, the Prince found it necessary to make use of this privilege. In his game with the Governor of Uganda, Sir William Gowers, the Prince was holding his own well up to the sixth hole of the nine-hole match. When approaching the seventh green his ball- -running straight and true for the hole —dropped into a hippo’s footmarks. When the local rule was explained to him he remarked that he was glad it was only the spoor and not the hippo himself. Removing the ball from the hippobunker, the Prince holed out with a perfect putt. He won the hole —and »li° '-me.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 11
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185UNIQUE CLUB RULE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 11
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