GOLF.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 29 January 1908, Page 6

GOLF.

NEW KIND OF CLUB. Still another new kind of golf club has been placed on the market, says a London paper. Sir Ralph l*yne Galloway, an experienced golfer, has been experimenting for some years, with the result that he has just perfected a new roller golf club. The head of the club is formed of a cylindrical piece of iron at the usual angle from the shaft. It is not rigid, but revolves on the centre piece. The result is that striking the ground does not crick the club head or follow through, and ntither the ground nor the ball can be cut by the club head. The new club head is about half the size of a golf ball in diameter. Now that the Rules of Golf are being remodelled, the rule now under discussion, which imposes the penalty of disqualification for plying outside the limits of the teeing grounds in stroke competitions, is almost sure to be altered, as the penalty is considered to be too severe. This rule and penalty is not one of the old rules of golf, and the following facts in regard'to its genesis may be interest ing:—When the code was being revised in 1899, the Rules of Golf Committee sent out its draft of new rules and alterations to certain men of knowledge and experience in the golfing world outside and asked for suggestions, and it is an interesting ! circumstance that this very rule appeared in the draft sent out for this 1 purpose as follows:—"If a player play from outside the limits of the I teeing ground the penalty shall be one stroke." Evidently the committee at first thought the stroke penalty sufficient, but, as was pointed out to them at the time, the rule as it was proposed left it open to a man without playing from the tee to walk to the green, place his ball a few inches from the hole,- an 4 hole in two (including the penalty stroke). It was therefore suggested to the committee that after the words "teeing ground" the rule should read: "The stroke must be recalled, and the penalty shall be one stroke," or words to that effect. This suggestion, however, was not adopted, but when the code was finally issued the rule had been altered to its present drastic form.