FOR the modern beginner at golf to
attain a fair degree of proficiency is, if he pursue his object in
the proper way, an immeasurably easier matter than it was for any of
us who started to play in the days of the gutta-percha ball. And it
is possible to exhibit a deal of Christian philosophy in
congratulating the newer inhabitants of the golfing world in respect
to this facility, because I am certain that those people who went
through the mill in the earlier days of the pastime obtained, of
sheer necessity, a knowledge of shots such as the rubber-cored ball,
under present conditions, never encourages. That knowledge has been
the great and faithful stand-by of the older players in times of strenuous competition with younger
rivals.
