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Golf players talk and write a great deal about the niblick, but they
devote hardly any time to practising with that tool. It is considered a
comical club.
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The meanest golfer is Pop Royce, who holes a twenty-foot putt, and acts
as if he did that sort of thing every day of his life.
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Crack golfers find a week of tournament play physically fatiguing. A dub
doesn’t tire so easily. He will play thirty-six holes, day after day, and
use up as much energy in one drive as a champ needs for a dozen. Vive le
dub!
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Mr. Taft’s gabby caddy explains that the president plays “consistent”
golf. That is to say, he does not bring in a poor score one day and
a better one the next, but brings a poor one every day. Thus we
observe again the influence of the judicial temperament. It’s a grand
temperament, but it never sets any links on fire.