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Letter: Letters : Top hole

Published 7 February 1998

From Hugh Harries

hugh.harries@mcmail.com

The idea of wearing a hat to improve the golfer’s swing is not new
(This Week, 10 January, p 11).
Read Those in Peril on the Tee by P. G.
Wodehouse: “His other pet failing, the raising of the head, had been checked by
the fact that he was wearing a top-hat . . . the unseen influence of generations
of ancestors who had devoted the whole of their intellect to the balancing of
top-hats on windy days.”

Issue no. 2120 published 7 February 1998

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