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A Line o’ Gowf or Two

by Bert Leston Taylor

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Popular Golf Magazine Page. — The American Golfer

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.

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