Excerpt from Pro and Con of Golf
Golf is the one outdoor game that appeals alike to young and old, to men, women, and children. It is an activity at once healthful, genial, and satisfying.
Many there are who like to ride a horse, steer a car, row a boat, or tighten their muscles on the mainsheet when the breeze is fresh. Then there are the woods, with gun and ever-faithful dog. All these, and more, are good. There is a place reserved, however, for this splendid game of golf, - combining as it does bodily exertion, mental ease and recuperation, real pleasure and exhilaration - whether played alone or enhanced by agreeable companionship and spirited competition.
To-day the world of gentle sport takes great interest in golf. Each little hamlet has a nine- or an eighteen-hole course, and every large community has from five to fifty courses.
May it not be well, therefore to have some straight drives in the literature of golf, by different drivers; a few brassies in the field of criticism; several approaches to the green of golfing comment; and many straight putts for par in a score in which the writer and compiler has found much pleasure, making a record of the game in many respects different from the other?
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