South Africa: All Part of the Game

There are several things rather remarkable about South African Golfer Sewsunker Sewgolum. One, of course, is his name, which comes from his Indian forebears. The second is his unorthodox, cross-wristed golf grip (he puts his left hand under his right). And the third is the fact that he can even play golf at all in a land where, by law, whites share the game only with whites, and nonwhites with nonwhites. Last week Sewgolum found himself the center of one of the most ludicrous episodes in the history of the sport—but about par for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's...