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GOLF HINTS
Art of Putting
USEFUL PRACTICE
(By S.R. HOWARD.)
There is no part of the game which is so vital to a player’s success as putting. When played badly it causes more aggravation than the misplaying of longer shots. When a player gets out of the double-figure handicap class an analysis of his score will show that half of his strokes will be putts.
Dungog Chronicle, 19 May 1931
The yellow Mercedes slowed to halt outside the chapel on Oaklea. The small sandstone church sat alone amongst sheep paddocks and occasional stands of gum trees from which cicadas raised the background scream of an Australian summer. The building was encircled by the private cemetery in which Sinclairs had been interred for generations.
The driver’s-side door was swung open, and Clyde Watson Jones ste
