Looks at golf

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• Justa Shorter Putt with Thee

  Had you, a week or so ago, been taking a sundown stroll through the rolling Bucks verdure with a view, perhaps, to comparing one Chalfont with another or enriching your collection of stockbrokers' house-names, you might have seen, some four or so miles from Amersham, a strange misshapen silhouette blemishing the evening horizon . There on a busty hill it stood, rooted: a gnarled thorn, you might have said to yourself, shrugging; a Saxon barrow, time-tumbled; an extravagant horse-dropping, piled and eroded by the summer wind.

  par Alan Coren
• Water those Greens in Sodom!

  The whole world wilI soon be fit for golfing holidays, reports eminent non-golfer E. S. TURNER

  par E.S. Turner
• Bwana Golf

  When professional golfer Jimmy Stewart approached bis ball for a second shot at the third hole be found a 10-foot cobra heading for it as weU. He killed it~nly to see another cobra, this time slightly shorter, emerging from the dead snake's jaws! lt met the same fate.

  par Chris Plumridge
• Errors and Omissions Excepted

  Ln the current row over office conditions, only the tip of the iceberg has been revealed. BASIL BOOTHROYD dives deeper

  par Basil Boothroyd
• Do You Serve Spirits Here?

  Sit down, Sir Walter, cries KEITH WATERHOUSE, we serve anybody !

  par Keith Waterhouse