sis of good strokes--One's attitude towards
one's opponent--Inaccurate counting of strokes--Tactics in match
play--Slow couples on the course--Asking for halves--On not holing
out when the half is given--Golfing attire--Braces better than
belts--Shoes better than boots--How the soles should be nailed--On
counting your strokes--Insisting on the rules--Play in frosty
weather--Chalked faces for wet days--Against gloves--Concerning
clubs--When confidence in a club is lost--Make up your mind about
your shot--The golfer's lunch--Keeping the eye on the ball--The
life of a rubber-core--A clean ball--The caddie's
advice--Forebodings of failure--Experiments at the wrong time--One
kind of golf at a time--Bogey beaten, but how?--Tips for tee
shots--As to pressing--The short approach and the wayward
eye--Swinging too much--For those with defective sight--Your
opponent's caddie--Making holes in the bunkers--The golfer's first
duty--Swinging on the putting greens--Practise difficult shots and
not easy ones, etc.

The following are detached suggestions, each of which, I think, is of
value and importance. In most cases they are such as I have not had an
opportunity of making in any other chapter; but in a few others they are
repetitions of former injunctions, for the sake of further emphasis:--

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Don't play too much golf if you want to get on in the game. Three rounds
a day are too much for any man, and if he makes a practice of playing
them whenever he has the opportunity, his game is sure to suffer. He
often says that his third round is the best of the day. But what about
the first next morning? Two rounds a day are enough, and these two
rounds on three days of the week are as much golf as is good for any
player who does not want to become careless and stale.

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Remember that the player who first settles down to the serious business
of a hard match has the advantage. In a majority of cases concentrated
purpose is the secret of victory.

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You must be thoughtful if you want to get on in golf. Most players when
they make an exceptionally good stroke gaze delightedly at the result,
and then begin to talk about it to their opponent and the caddie. They
rarely give a thought as to exactly how they did it, though it must be
obvious that for that go