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Golfers, the days are growing shorter. Get out after dinner and save some
daylight for the farmers.
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“Golf has its jokes, undoubtedly,” says Dr. Francis Hackett, “but it has
no joke such a joke as golf itself.” If Francis were thirty or forty
years younger he would yell “Fore!” whenever he saw a man going along
with a bag of clubs.
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We have frequently wondered why we play such a messy game on a golf
course new to us. Mr. Vardon explains. “The perspective of the course” at
Inverness bothered him.
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When Harry Vardon relates that he putted from the edge of the green, and
“thanks to the fates of golf” the ball fell into the cup, he means that
he made a damned good putt and is wholly aware of the fact.
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Mr. Harding, we read, shoots Chevy Chase in 95, “but is known to be
ambitious to reach par,” which is 71. Any golfer should be able to get a
laugh out of that.