. St. Nicholas [serial] . ct for golf. 880 GOLF IN BAD WEATHER 881 The feature of our play throughout thestruggle was our iron shots. With the raindriving in under our broad-rimmed hats, itwas no easy matter to pick the ball out of awet lie and have it land on the green fairlyclose to the cup when we used our we had uniformly fine success at doingthis. That is about the way almost every onelooked upon the game, except those who havestudied and played it longest. These latterknow that golf is not such a difficult game in such conditions, warm clothing is quite essen-tial. If one get
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ct for golf. 880 GOLF IN BAD WEATHER 881 The feature of our play throughout thestruggle was our iron shots. With the raindriving in under our broad-rimmed hats, itwas no easy matter to pick the ball out of awet lie and have it land on the green fairlyclose to the cup when we used our we had uniformly fine success at doingthis. That is about the way almost every onelooked upon the game, except those who havestudied and played it longest. These latterknow that golf is not such a difficult game in such conditions, warm clothing is quite essen-tial. If one gets chilled, the muscles are boundto tighten; and when they do, good playing isout of the question. The grip of the club inwet weather is a matter of worry to many. Agood many chaps doctor theirs, sometimeswith resin. Tom Claflin, a well-known Bostongolfer, winds a piece of cotton string aroundthe leather grips of his clubs when it rains,and claims that he gets a much better grip asa result. As I happened to have played him. ••WAKM CLOTHING IS QUITE ESSENTIAL. AND MAKE TOUKSELF THINK THE WEATHER COULD BE MUCH WORSE, NO MATTER HOW HEAVY THE DOWNPOUR wet weather, unless there happens to come adeluge. That is just what makes it such a finesport. A tennis-match or ball-game could notpossibly be run off on such days. But yourgolfer need not be denied his rounds by theweather, except where there is snow and we have our splendid southern courses totake care of such hazards. I think, as I look back upon my game withFreddy Wright, that the cause for the suddenturn in our match in my favor was the matterof clothing. I was well bundled up to keepwarm, whereas Fred was too lightly a result, he felt the cold, and his musclesprobably contracted a bit from its effect. Thisprevented him keeping up the terrific pace heset for the first half and gave me my opening. In the matter of wearing-apparel to meet that same morning in just as hard a rain, I canvouch for the fact that
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