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I have
searched as many books as I have without success. Can you
please tell me who lost at the fifth extra hole(41st) at the
1960 English Amateur Championship at Hunstanton. I believe
he was a future Walker Cup player. My records do not go back
far enough. George Corston
Editor:
Fortunately, I happen to have one
or two old golfers handbooks etc. I can confirm that Doug
Sewell, who at the time, I think was an artisan member of
Ferndown golf club beat Martin Christmas in the 1960 English
Amateur Championship
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| The
Ryder Cup tickets should be sold through Golf Clubs and Golf
Societies - and not to the corporate sponsor with the biggest
wallet - Golfers spend the money on equipment - on membership
that pays for the upkeep of courses - on green fees that fund
other courses - on professional lessons - on junior golf through
club schemes- so the members of each club and registered society
should be able to bid for tickets. Clubs and societies could
organise charity fund raising events using tickets - and it
would bed the Ryder Cup into the golfing community like no other
sporting event - and allow the players to understand that they
are playing for the benefit of golf - not for money. Tim McKane. |
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Do you
know of any cross-country golfing achievements? Playing a
"golf course" across open country from A to B rather than
playing a course. - Nigel Preston
Editor:
I read one or two reports of golfing
achievements as you mention - In 1896 Freddie Tate, then
a subeltern in the Blackwatch drove a ball from the rookerie,
the highest building on Edinburgh Castle, in a match against
a brother officer, to the hole out in the fountain in Princes
Street Gardens 350 ft below and about 300 yards distant.
Long
drives have been made from mountain peaks across the gorge
at Victoria Falls, from the Pyramids, from high buildings
in New York and from many other similar places. I recall
that Tony Jacklyn attempted to drive a ball from the roof
of the Savoy across the Thames.
The
best cross country match that I know of is an annual match
played between Royal Troon and Prestwick Golf Club which
involves playing the first ten holes at Troon followed by
the last nine at Prestwick followed by a long and fairly
liquid lunch with the game then resuming for the front nine
and the back eight at Royal Troon. All of this can be played
without going on any public road. I know that at a number
of clubs, cross country matches are played where one may
tee off from the first and hole out at the seventh or eighth
depending on the lie of the land.
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Is there
a minimum distance that the cup should be from the edge of
the green? -Mike McLaughlin
Editor:
As far as I am aware, there is no
minimum distance that the hole should be placed from the
edge of the green. But it would be unusual in a mdeal competition
for this to be nearer than six feet from the edge of the
green.
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What is
"hitting it fat?" - Mark
Editor:
"Hitting the fat" means that when
striking the ball your contact is with the ground before
the ball. This produces a large divot and a considerable
loss of distance.
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| Re:-
Solheim Cup. Well won Europe and well fought America. Regarding
the confusion over whether or not Annika Soremstam should have
been asked to replay her shot - the rules of golf state that
your opponent may ask you to replay a shot if you have played
out of turn. However, in this situation, it was not one of her
opponents who asked her to replay her shot but an outside party
(not her opponent)in the shape of the American Team Captain.
Surely it's time to leave the game to the players and keep the
officials where they belong - behind the ropes! Stuart Farmer |
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wish to publish my views on Kelly Robbins actions at the Solhiem
Cup today. I am a 4 handicap golfer whose in the past have played
for Scottish Schoolboys against English Schoolboys (not important,
but we won and so did I). I've played golf for more than thirty
years and I've witnessed all sorts of things in golf, good and
bad. Today, I have seen the worst example of etiquette I have
ever seen in my life. Kelly Robbins made, what I consider to
be the worst public attempt to utilise the rules of golf to
the extent of being obscene. If someone from the UK + Europe
has done something similar, I would have written the same note
but I would have included my colleagues in the European PGA
Tour to make sure that some action was taken. To conclude, I
believe that your organisation ought to condemn Kelly Robbins
action and help restore the good name of golf. PS I don't who
the referee was but he/she was a disgrace to succumb to Kelly
Robbin's claim. I have referred may golf matches, and I would
have told Kelly politely to play her next shot. Dave Ross (
a very upset golf supporter, and yes I do know the result) |
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I am planning
a visit to Scotland next summer and would like to combine
this with a trip to the Standard Life Loch Lomond tournamnet.
Can you please advise me of the date. Tony Edwards
Editor:
Next year's event, renamed the Loch
Lomond World Invitational, is on July 12-15 2001.
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Please
could you forward me an e-mail address for the european pga
Editor:
The information given out by the European
PGA does not include an email address, their telephone number
is 44 (0)1344 840400 . Their website is http://www.europeantour.com
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| I contact
you with reference to the British
Ladies Open Golf Championship to
be held at Royal Birkdale later this year. I would like to point
out to people wishing to attend the event that during the same
week, Southport is hosting its annual flower show and accommodation
is or will be in demand. - Balmoral Lodge Hotel Balmorallg@aol.com |
