With such a list agreed on, when a man topped his driver he would merely
ejaculate, “Two!” and sit down.
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All true golfers believe in a golf hereafter. Brand Whitlock was okaying
St. Andrews with a famous “pro” who remarked, of a certain putting green,
that there was none larger or finer, and Whitlock’s aged caddy added:
“Not in this world.”
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One of the pleasures of playing golf at Old Elm is a notable absence
of small bets in the matches such as a ball a hole or a piffling
“syndicate.” Old Elm golfers play for blank cheques.
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A gentleman writes us that our look-at-the-hole theory works all right in
practice, but breaks down in actual play. We beg to assure him that that
is his fault not the theory’s. The test of every stroke is what you do
with it in practice, when the muscles are relaxed and you function almost
mechanically.
Frexample, the Worthington Ball Company does not employ a crack golfer
to test its products; it has a mechanical driver at its plant in Ohio.
If the ball flies straight they know it is perfectly round; if one brand
flies farther than another, they know that that is the longest ball.
There is nothing “psychological” about it.