GOLFER’S SKILL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6

GOLFER’S SKILL

NOT GREATLY AFFECTED BY AGE. Results of recent championship events have raised the question whether first-class golf is becoming more and more a young man’s game. Though apparently a certain amount of evidence can be found to favour the argument, the answer must be no. For golf there is no age limit. A golfer’s prime can be from twenty or even beiow, to fifty, or even above. Proof of that exists in New Zealand, where A. D. S. Duncan won his first Amateur Championship in 1899, and his tenth in 1926 —twenty-seven years later. A few days ago, at the age of sixty-six, Duncan completed a round of the New Zealand Open at Miramar in 74. bogey for the course. The Whitcombe brothers in England are all over forty, yet still very fit and supple. Reginald, at fortyone, won the British Open, and today is said to be a better player than ever. The Hon. Michael Scott, who visited New Zealand a few years ago, won the Australian Open in 1904. Twenty-six years later, his accuracy and skill, in nowise diminished, were good enough to win him the British Amateur. Sandy Herd, at the age of sixty-four, played for Scotland against England. Now. at the age of seventy-one. he is professional for the Moor Park Club, Hertfordshire.