R. S. A. Golfers

World champions have classified the Poverty Bay Golf Club's links as among the finest in the world.

Once each year, however, they seem to lose their distinguished identity. Bunkers become death-trap terrors, tees sport the most fantastic equipment, bushes teem with Nazi storm troopers and gulli-gulli boys.

A Peter Thomson or a Gary Player competing in the Gisborne R.S.A. Golf Tournament would have little advantage over the rankest amateur.

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This competitor didn't fare so well. The device was devised in the devilish minds of the ex POW's.

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Ever teed off from a prone position? Try this contraption!

As is made evident throughout this month's issue of "Photo News", the "Hula Hoop" has found its way into most avenues of community activity.

It even found its way this year into the RSA golf tournament. Although by no. means the most treacherous hazard, the mastery of it was, like the Scarlet Pimpernel, "dashed elusive, sir!"

These two golfers were going well until they struck this unexpected hazard.

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"Hooper" at came away from fray with a somewhat flattened nose.

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Hooper companion ended in a confused tangle.