BOY GOLFER
EQUALS AMATEUR RECORD AT ST ANDREW’S LONDON, May 6. A 17-year-old Irish schoolboy, James Bruen, participating in the Walker Cup trials at St Andrew’s, did a round of 68, equalling Bobby Jones’s amateur record. He did the second round in 71, Cyril Tolley, chairman of the selectors, described Bruen as the greatest modern golfer. He is now regarded as certain of inclusion.
Alfred Perry, in the final stages of the Southport £l6OO tournament, holed the first hole in one.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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