19 MAY 1939, Page 18

A New Handicap On the subject of golf, on some

very rural links, I came upon a method of handicapping that was new to me. The inferior, or less perfect of two players, habitually receives from his opponent half a stroke at every hole. This means, of course, that either player wins the hole if he does it in a stroke less than the other ; but the receiver of the odds wins the hole if it is done in the same figure : what would be a half becomes a win. How considerable such a handicap is I do not know ; but it has psychological virtues for the giver of odds.