144 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN 



It is not my purpose in these pages to deal 

 with the technicalities of golf, nor yet to 

 emulate the literary labours of such expert 

 essayists as Braid, Vardon, or Taylor. Of what 

 is known as " Advanced Golf " these ^vriters 

 have treated in a manner which less competent 

 masters of English prose may well have cause 

 to envy; they have covered the whole ground 

 so completely that nothing remains to be said 

 upon this particular aspect of the game. 



Very little, however, has yet been written 

 upon the subject of what (for lack of a better 

 term) I may venture to call " Retired Golf " — 

 that is to say, golf for the elderly, for players 

 whose handicap ranges between 18 and 36, who 

 may truthfully be said to have one foot in the 

 grave and the other almost continually in some 

 bunker. And it is to these, as well as to the 

 mentally deficient, the morally and physically 

 infirm, and to all natural and incurable foozlers, 

 that I propose to address a few words of 

 counsel and encouragement, in the hope that 

 by so doing I may possibly help to improve their 

 game, and thus add not a little to the sum of 

 human happiness. 



The whole secret of success at retired golf, 

 as everybody nowadays admits, lies in the 



