GOLF AND BUNKERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 15

GOLF AND BUNKERS

RAMSAY MACDONALD’S VIEW PREMIER’S ORATORICAL SHOTS I wonder whether Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, when distributing the prizes at tho Spey Bey Golf Club before he left for America, had in mind the regrettable incident at the Lossiemouth Club when he was expelled because of his ‘‘violent political views" (says an English writer!. That expulsion has now been rescinded, and the decision conveyed to the Premier, but I understand that in no circumstances will he ever go back to Lossiemouth, a course which is almost on his doorstep. And who can blame him? In his remarks at Spey Bey he said: “There is no more beautiful course in the world than Spey Bey. There are better courses, there are more sporting courses, but if you come to play in the quiet, mild, earnest way of the sportsman, and you want to forget politics and even religion itself, there is no course that will play up to that spirit better.

“The man or woman who never foozles,” the Premier went on. “ceases to get any enjoyment out of golf. What would golf be without bunkers? It would be as dull as the House of Commons with a big majority behind you.. When I come to the fourth hole, with its yawning, terrorising bunker looking me right in the face, I think of my friends of the Conservative Party, for there it stands always facing us like some of the characters, whom I will not specify, in Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’ ”