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A line o' gowf or two

Chapter 144: POPULAR GOLF MAGAZINE PAGE. THE AMERICAN GOLFER.
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About This Book

A lively collection of humorous essays, brief poems, and columns treats golf as both pastime and subject for comic scrutiny. The pieces combine practical advice and idiosyncratic technique—especially on putting—with playful rule critiques, etiquette sketches, and vivid short vignettes about rounds and clubroom talk. Wit and cadence predominate: the writer propounds unconventional theories, riffs on the game’s rituals, and uses observational humor to illuminate human foibles, rhythm in play, and the gentle absurdities that surround sport and leisure.

Practical Suggestions.

When you are put up at a club and invited to sign a friend’s name for anything you desire, always provide yourself with a hard pencil. It lasts longer.

Some players, not many, replace divots; but it is better to disregard them, as the cavity prepared with your iron leaves an ideal brassey lie for a following player.

After driving into the party ahead, the correct explanation is: “I didn’t think I was going so far.”

Always use a wooden club on a caddy. A niblick is too messy.

Before pocketing a ball lost by another player it is well to wait until the ball has stopped rolling.

A character in one of Mr. Thomas’ plays remarks that there is nothing less worth watching than a bum game of billiards. But at Ormond Beach a gallery watched Mr. Rockefeller play a round of golf.

For a certain golfer
A word sufficed.
And the less they told him
The more he sliced.