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id: 28107
title: The Complete Golfer
author: Vardon, Harry
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  the right hand plays--The manner of hitting the ball--On always being There are different ways of learning to play the great game of golf, play a good game of golf if he goes about it in the right way. fine players drive their best balls with stiff clubs. Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points against full swings with iron clubs--Playing for a low ball against golfers best like to play, because they know that the good shots are (_i_) A ball is "in play" as soon as the player has made a stroke at the If a ball in play move, after the player has grounded his club Except from the tee a player shall not play while his ball is If a player play the opponent''s ball, his side shall lose the hole,


id: 11041
title: The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
author: Barbour, Ralph Henry
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  lined up for the first time, and Joel was placed at left half in the Whipple, Blair, and West all had their supporters, and Joel learned a "Nevertheless, West," replied the head coach, "if a fellow can play golf friends took their way toward Joel''s room, he told everything to West in One afternoon a week later Outfield West and Joel March were seated on half over the course together, West explaining the game, and Joel After supper West and Clausen came up to Joel''s room, and the four boys West returned to the room he found Joel at the table, head in hands, an the time came for going East both West and Joel were impatient to be on "March, the fellow who kicked the winning goal-from-field in the St. Eustace game two years ago." And while Joel had performed of late no


id: 37136
title: The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer
author: Leach, Henry
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  golf, we like to think of the good men of the old traditions as being No man when at St. Andrews is allowed "to play the short game at the regular golf holes, far smoother courses to play upon and much improved clubs and balls. which he plays the game, Mr. Ball''s golf is strongly individual to knows the truth about a golf stroke as it is played, and that is the man States with greens far superior to those on the old course at St. Andrews the last time the Amateur Championship was played there, those possess a good golf course there, he might say he supposed they did play history that the game was played in Italy before any golf club, except it not for this golf course, on which he plays nearly every day. "You are a golfer, and we of Spain may give you some good golf to play!"


id: 37323
title: Poems on Golf
author: nan
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  The jointed club, whose balls invade the skies, Or round the green the flying ball you chase, The pond''rous club upon the ball descends, Balls, clubs, and men I sing, who first, methinks, Men play the game, the boys the clubs convey, Now, near the hole Sir David plays the odds; And makes him miss his putt; Baird holes the ball; But in!--at five yards, good, Clan holes the ball! Still the old hands at Golf delight to play-Is there an end to putters, clubs, and balls? Than ever man who play''d at Golf before: I''ve seen him play a better game, by Jove; Here, playing a good ball, perhaps it goes Like the glorious game of Golf, boys. So come and play at Golf, boys. So come and play at Golf, boys. So come and play at Golf, boys. In playing at the Golf, boys.


id: 37394
title: Fifty Years of Golf
author: Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon)
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  now the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, playing at Hoylake. jabbing the ball up to the hole with the iron clubs and with a great ball, while others, like that great little man Jamie Anderson, then at The first amateur championship, as by law established, was played at St. Andrews, and started for me, as I suppose did most things at that time Johnny Ball really was on his own course and when playing his right I know that I never started out to play a match with Johnny Ball without golfers going about the various links under the leadership of old Mr. Robert Clark, who edited the great book on golf. one day at Hoylake to play a five-ball match, for a fiver a hole, Johnny Ball had won the amateur championship that year at Hoylake, Ball played badly at all, yet he was beaten, I think, by more holes than


id: 41149
title: The Soul of Golf
author: Vaile, P. A. (Percy Adolphus)
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  left-handed players would use right-hand clubs and play like a to hit before the club head has come anywhere near the ball"--shows to the right--well, the cut on a golf ball in a mashie stroke is in Now, as a matter of fact, by the time the club has arrived at the ball face of the golf club, has struck the ball and sent it on its way to stroke, it stands to reason that after the ball had left his club, his Golfers_ that "in playing for a _pulled ball_ the right wrist turns a golf ball with just as little spin, and as a matter of practical the golf club, the ball will come off it at the same angle at which it possible to drive golf balls by a stroke delivered at the moment of matter of fact the rate of spin of the golf ball at the moment it


id: 38683
title: Mr. Punch''s Golf Stories
author: nan
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  There''s some as takes their golf too seerius fer their strength, like words; fer, if yer think of it, a course full of Mister ''Erminius tuppence on the match meself, wif old Washer''s caddy, although not very old Washer, did that tremenjus drive; and ''e''s a man as only plays ''is One Sunday lately ''e came down wif a frend for an ''ole day''s golf. A little success at golf, as I''ve notised, jenerally makes a man wish Let me diskribe to you a rarnd which ''e played the uther day wiv Mister THE GOLFER''S FRIEND AFTER LONG DRIVES--The Tea-Caddy. come and play at ball with you if you like, my dears." "Oh, I''ve played on many worse," said Aunt Susannah, looking round her _Caddie._ "He plays gowf awfu'' like you, sir!"] A caddie who gets playing with your clubs upon the sly; _Young Lady._ "Why?" _Boy._ "_I''ve ''eard ''im play golf!!!_"]


id: 31928
title: A Golfing Idyll; Or, The Skipper''s Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews
author: Flint, Violet
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  Now Skipper frien'', come tell me true A golfer good, and decent caddie, Jockie was like a bed of sand, But a'' things good maun hae an end, ''Good evening, Skipper,'' says he sprightly, ''Man, a hundred pounds, I hae nae got, A nose like mine, and fine black een, I played weel up a rattlin'' game; Were seen strange forms, like horned apes, My game, I told you had been good, Nine holes to play, eight up I stood. Gone like a flash, I looked and wondered, _One little hole, to save your soul!_ Play up, and man-like save your skin, Old hands, scratch players o'' the game, Good player still, an honest man, He little cared to view the scene. Good play or fickle fortune save me, Of Clootie''s tail, like the broad arrow, and sic-like exclamation. I''m like the chield in Bunyan''s story, I, grim auld pilgrim, in like manner,


