Sport: Extraordinary Luck

Mrs. Frank Small, a New Zealand housewife, flubs around the fairways (handicap: 17) like any other golfer, but off the tees she is phenomenal. Last January, she was naturally elated when she scored the golfer's dream: a hole in one. Then, in ten weeks of play, she scored three more. Last week Mrs. Small was the sensation of the Antipodes. Playing on her home course at Invercargill, where there are four short holes (190, 135, 120 and 114 yds.), Mrs. Small sank Hole-in-One No. 5. Two days later, playing before a buzzing, unbelieving gallery, she smacked another one straight and true,...

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