. St. Nicholas [serial] . urned the trick. The thing that impressed memost was the height of all his shots. He hadlearned that good results can be obtained onwet courses only by hitting the ball into the air. Low scores on heavy courses are not un-usual and are easily explained. They arecaused in part by the uniform condition of theputting-greens. A golfer can putt with moreconsistency on a slow green than upon one thatpossesses the speed of a skating-rink. Anotherreason is that his mashie approaches are morelikely to stay close to where they fall thanwould otherwise be the case. That permitsh
. St. Nicholas [serial] . urned the trick. The thing that impressed memost was the height of all his shots. He hadlearned that good results can be obtained onwet courses only by hitting the ball into the air. Low scores on heavy courses are not un-usual and are easily explained. They arecaused in part by the uniform condition of theputting-greens. A golfer can putt with moreconsistency on a slow green than upon one thatpossesses the speed of a skating-rink. Anotherreason is that his mashie approaches are morelikely to stay close to where they fall thanwould otherwise be the case. That permitshim to approach fearlessly. J. H. Taylor, theBritish golfer and reputed to be the best ex-ponent of this fickle club, told me that the se-cret of his success with the mashie was due tothe fact that he always tried to pitch his ballinto the cup on the fly. He explains that, if itcarried to the hole, it would usually remain inits near vicinity, as he put so much back-spinon the shot. To return again to my early training as a. 884 GOLF IN BAD WEATHER mud-horse and the manner in which I stole mygolf (it was nothing else), I recall manystunts that more than helped my game as Igrew older. You will remember my sayingthat another boy and I (sometimes it was myolder brother Wilfred) would sneak off to ahole far removed from the club-house andthere disport ourselves like members in goodstanding, except that the members would havehad the pleasure of knowing that they couldnot be removed or ejected. In a great manycases we were compelled to play two holesover and over again. Instead of playing theseholes in the orthodox manner, it was quitenecessary to play from one green to another inorder to avoid being seen. A rule was madeto the effect that whoever won a hole had theprivilege of saying just how the next oneshould be played. Needless to say the easiestways were never selected. For instance, one of the most popular selec-tions was that of making the loser play overa wooded section. The le
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