American And British Golf Ball Test (1931)

Full title reads: “Wentworth. American and British Golf Ball Test. Cotten and Mitchell, playing 2 games alternately with each ball, prove ’there is not much in it between our ’ and the American Larger and Lighter’.“ Wentworth, Cambridgeshire. Golfer Henry Cotton drives away from the tee. Abe Mitchell follows him with a good shot. Good shot of cotton sinking a very long putt. Various shots of the golfers playing their round on the Wentworth Course. N.B. 1931 saw a debate in Golf about the merits of a new larger American golf ball - inches - rather than the traditional inch ball favoured by the British authorities. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agen