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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 339, 10 September 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

The following story from the Outlook will amuse others besides golfers : —" There is, as all the world knows, a dire sand-bunder on the famous St. Andrews links called Hell. In sympathy perhaps with a milder Scottish theology, this place of punishment for erring golfers has in recent years undergone a gradual amelioration. ]>ut imagine two elderly women in the Fife train overhearing the following from the lips of a clergyman reciting the incidents of his golfing holiday to a friend :—" I have been going the wrong roai lately and getting into Hell, but the place is not what it was. I was in twice in one week and found no difficulty in getting out. The first time I was lying very bad, but I forced it with an iron. The second time I might just have been in an ordinary bunker.' (Bunker in Scotland is the name of a fixed-in box for holding the house coal). "I think it a pity that Hell is so much neglected ; it used to be a grand punishment. In my young days a man in Hell just stayed there and swore : now he comes out laughing ac it. The Old Man should see to it." The Old Man intended was probably Tom Morris, but the one woman said to the other : " Who in the world can that minister man be ?" "Ob," answered the second wife, " he'll bo a Catholic priest, I'm thinking." "Ay weel, there's a chance for our John yet, for where a body like that can get out John will scrape through."