KING TO GOLF.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 2

KING TO GOLF.

NEED QF EXERCISE. Heavy Working Day. The King hat decided to take 'tip golf again, says 'the London Sunday Referee. This spring will probably see him at Su.nningdale and playing also over some of |thc other famous courses that formerly knew him well He is putting in an ordinary working day that would dismay many business executives. His duties at.the Writing, table have become paffiicularly heavy.' For half a dozen hours l a day he> has a pen in his hand. Other regular duties thait make up the King’s daily, working round have made the getting of proper exercise difficult but increasingly imperative. It has become his chief personal problem., , He has come'to the conclusion tha his best way to get this exercise is to gli out. with hi s -golf clubs. He will be taking up a pas ime at which half a dozen years ago he was particularly proficient—his handicap was seven. Then he played at Ranelagh and Camberley Heath. When he played himself in as Captain of the Royal and Ancient Club it St. Andrew's some years ago he made one of Lhe finest drives ever struck by a holder of the office —200 yards against the wind. While living at 145, Piccadilly, the King rigged up a net in the small garden there, so that he could practise golf sho|is of every kind to his heart's content. He intends to have a similar net in a corner of the Buckingham Palace grounds. Professionals who have seen him playing agree that he has exactly the temperament and eye that combine to make a man a’ good golfer.