favourable eight-page spread in the September edition of America's top golfing magazine.

"Nowhere is golf played with greater fervour than in Bermuda, where there are eight courses in a country of a scant 22 square miles,'' writes Mr. Don Wade in Golf Digest, which enjoys a circulation of 1,450,000.

Apart from describing Bermuda's golf courses with the exception of Ocean View, he makes much of the friendliness of Bermudians and the Island's unique qualities.

He notes how residents came together last year to raise cash to provide a free vacation for an American couple who were mugged while walking back to their hotel one evening.

"Bermudians were genuinely outraged, not because the crime was particularly brutal, but because it was so totally out of character for their Island,'' he writes.

Mr. Wade goes on to list "ten things you won't see in Bermuda'', including: sales tax, fast-food joints (with the exception of KFC which "got in by a fluke. It won't happen again.''), a policeman with a gun, snow or any other "winter nastiness'', tourists driving cars, air pollution, mosquitoes, and cruise ships in port on the weekends.

He also notes that tennis was introduced to America via Bermuda.

And he tells the legend of baseball star Babe Ruth at the fifth hole of the Mid Ocean Club, which he had the highest praise for.

"From the moment you arrive at Mid Ocean there is a palpable sense of being someplace quite special,'' he writes, adding its "stunning'' clubhouse overlooks "arguably the best beach on the Island''.

Mr. Wade points out the fact that Mid Ocean "played host to meetings between Presidents and Prime Ministers, most notably Roosevelt, Churchill and Bush.'' Mr. Wade even touches on Bermuda's racial climate and how the breaking down of racial barriers was not "a loud and contentious affair'' as it was in other countries.