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PART VI.— GOLF. 



The game of golf — The value of the game — Fixed rules to be ob- 

 served — Learning to swing with driver — Rules for guidance in 

 learning to play — Driving — Approaching — To loft — To run an 

 approach with the cleek — To put cut on — Putting — Match and 

 medal playing — Approach shot — Knee shots — Cut — Professional 

 style of approach — Mr. Hutchinson's plan of stopping a ball dead 

 — Shape of iron club-head — Advice to beginners — Running up the 

 iron — -Half-shot or approach of left leg — Three-quarter stroke — 

 Four general rules — On putting — How to grip the putter. 



Of recent years the game of golf, which was, with 

 some few exceptions, confined almost entirely to 

 Scotland, being a purely Scotch game, has become 

 very much the fashion in England, and there are now, 

 I may say, but comparatively few English towns, 

 where ground is available to form golf-links, where 

 such do not exist. The wonder is that it has not long 

 ere this been more generally taken up, for it is one of 

 the best of games, and one full of interest, not to say 

 excitement, and which demands considerable skill to 

 excel in. That volume of the Badminton Library 

 which has been recently published respecting the 

 game, treats very fully of it, and speaks of it as being 

 one of the oldest Scottish games. 



The value of golf as a game can hardly be over- 

 estimated, for while it is a scientific and withal a manly 

 game, it is one which, when learned, can be played by 



