Beware the golf ball racket at the Philippines airport

Sympathetic though we may be to the Philippines in the face of the Hong Kong government's absurd and surely racist attitude to the country, the Philippines can be its tourism industry's own worst enemy. A reader writes to say he had entered the country a few days earlier with a bag of golf balls in his hand luggage but found that when he was leaving, the few remaining balls could not be taken on board and had to be surrendered. Remonstrations finally produced a list of banned hand-carry items, and the official pointed to "golf clubs". No sign of balls.

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