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What to do when sharing a golf course with a crocodile

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11 August 2021

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Josie Ford

Water hazard

When it comes to what some refer to as the sport of golf, Feedback is unsure whether we land in the bunker of it being a good walk spoiled or, as G. K. Chesterton saw it, an expensive way of playing marbles.

News of an innovative way to enliven the game comes courtesy of a Facebook post from the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club in Papua New Guinea – an outfit of such grand venerability that the hole-by-hole course description on its website appears to be in Latin – forwarded to us by Brendan O’Keefe of Queanbeyan, New South Wales. …

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