The Complete Golfer

Good golf to come--Giants of the past--The amateurs of to-day--The greatness of "Freddy" Tait--Modern professionals--Good sportsmen and good friends--A misconception--The consta...

Difficulties of choice--A long search for the best--Experiments with more than a hundred irons--Buy few clubs to begin with--Take the professional's advice--A preliminary set of...

"Slow back"--The line of the club head in the upward swing--The golfer's head must be kept rigid--The action of the wrists--Position at the top of the swing--Movements of the ar...

Too much golf--Analysis 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 hal...

Necessity for thought and ingenuity--The long-handicap man's course--The scratch player's--How good courses are made--The necessary land--A long nine-hole course better than a s...

A test of the golfer--The versatility of the cleek--Different kinds of cleeks--Points of the driving mashie--Difficulty of continued success with it--The cleek is more reliable-...

Not enough golf--"Reduced to cricket"--I move to Bury--A match with Alexander Herd--No more nerves--Third place in an open competition--I play for the Championship--A success at...

Varieties of caddies--Advice to a left-handed player--Cock-shots at Ganton--Unearned increments--An offer to carry for the fun of the thing--The caddie who knows too much--My id...

The great advantage of good approach play--A fascinating club--Characteristics of a good mashie--Different kinds of strokes with it--No purely wrist shot--Stance and grip--Posit...

Good golf in the United States--My tour through the country--Mr. Travis's victory in our Amateur Championship--Not a surprise--The man who played the best golf--British amateurs...

Many first-class links--The best of all--Sandwich--Merits of the Royal St. George's course--Punishments for faults and rewards for skill--Not a short course--The best hole--The...

Advantage of a good drive--And the pleasure of it--More about the driver--Tee low--Why high tees are bad--The question of stance--Eccentricities and bad habits--Begin in good st...

The mistakes of the beginner--Too eager to play a round--Despair that follows--A settling down to mediocrity--All men may excel--The sorrows of a foozler--My advice--Three month...

The master stroke in golf--Intentional pulling and slicing--The contrariness of golf--When pulls and slices are needful--The stance for the slice--The upward swing--How the slic...

The philosopher in a bunker--On making certain of getting out--The folly of trying for length--When to play back--The qualities of the niblick--Stance and swing--How much sand t...

The four-ball foursome--Its inferiority to the old-fashioned game--The case of the long-handicap man--Confusion on the greens--The man who drives last--The old-fashioned two-bal...

Problems on undulating greens--The value of practice--Difficulties of calculation--The cut stroke with the putter--How to make it--When it is useful--Putting against a sideways...

The happy golfer--A beginning at Jersey--The Vardon family--An anxious tutor--Golfers come to Grouville--A fine natural course--Initiation as a caddie--Primitive golf--How we ma...

Its difficulties--Nerves are fatal--The philosophic spirit--Experience and steadiness--The torn card--Too much hurry to give up--A story and a moral--Indifference to your oppone...

A game within another game--Putting is not to be taught--The advantage of experience--Vexation of missing short putts--Some anecdotes--Individuality in putting--The golfer's nat...

As to its being a ladies' game--A sport of freedom--The lady on the links--The American lady golfer--English ladies are improving--Where they fail, and why--Good pupils--The sam...

Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points of the brassy--The stance--Where and how to hit the ball--Playing from cuppy lies--Jab strokes from badly-cuppe...

The average player's favourite club--Fine work for the iron--Its points--The right and the wrong time for play with it--Stance measurements--A warning concerning the address--Th...

strokes, making just this one small variation, that instead of allowing the right thumb to fall over the shaft, as when driving or playing through the green, I place it on the t...

much at ease on the links and so fully capable of doing justice to myself as when smoking. But at the same time I believe in the most complete moderation. Only by the constant e...

Good golf to come--Giants of the past--The amateurs of to-day--The greatness of "Freddy" Tait--Modern professionals--Good sportsmen and good friends--A misconception--The consta...

Too much golf--Analysis 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 hal...

Not enough golf--"Reduced to cricket"--I move to Bury--A match with Alexander Herd--No more nerves--Third place in an open competition--I play for the Championship--A success at...

Many first-class links--The best of all--Sandwich--Merits of the Royal St. George's course--Punishments for faults and rewards for virtue--Not a short course--The best hole--The...

Good golf in the United States--My tour through the country--Mr. Travis's victory in our Amateur Championship--Not a surprise--The man who played the best golf--British amateurs...

"Slow back"--The line of the club head in the upward swing--The golfer's head must be kept rigid--The action of the wrists--Position at the top of the swing--Movements of the ar...

A test of the golfer--The versatility of the cleek--Different kinds of cleeks--Points of the driving mashie--Difficulty of continued success with it--The cleek is more reliable-...

The great advantage of good approach play--A fascinating club--Characteristics of a good mashie--Different kinds of strokes with it--No purely wrist shot--Stance and grip--Posit...

The master stroke in golf--Intentional pulling and slicing--The contrariness of golf--When pulls and slices are needful--The stance for the slice--The upward swing--How the slic...

Necessity for thought and ingenuity--The long-handicap man's course--The scratch player's--How good courses are made--The necessary land--A long nine-hole course better than a s...

Difficulties of choice--A long search for the best--Experiments with more than a hundred irons--Buy few clubs to begin with--Take the professional's advice--A preliminary set of...

The mistakes of the beginner--Too eager to play a round--Despair that follows--A settling down to mediocrity--All men may excel--The sorrows of a foozler--My advice--Three month...

The four-ball foursome--Its inferiority to the old-fashioned game--The case of the long-handicap man--Confusion on the greens--The man who drives last--The old-fashioned two-bal...

Its difficulties--Nerves are fatal--The philosophic spirit--Experience and steadiness--The torn card--Too much hurry to give up--A story and a moral--Indifference to your oppone...

Varieties of caddies--Advice to a left-handed player--Cock-shots at Ganton--Unearned increments--An offer to carry for the fun of the thing--The caddie who knows too much--My id...

Problems on undulating greens--The value of practice--Difficulties of calculation--The cut stroke with the putter--How to make it--When it is useful--Putting against a sideways...

Advantage of a good drive--And the pleasure of it--More about the driver--Tee low--Why high tees are bad--The question of stance--Eccentricities and bad habits--Begin in good st...

A game within another game--Putting is not to be taught--The advantage of experience--Vexation of missing short putts--Some anecdotes--Individuality in putting--The golfer's nat...

The happy golfer--A beginning at Jersey--The Vardon family--An anxious tutor--Golfers come to Grouville--A fine natural course--Initiation as a caddie--Primitive golf--How we ma...

As to its being a ladies' game--A sport of freedom--The lady on the links--The American lady golfer--English ladies are improving--Where they fail, and why--Good pupils--The sam...

Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points of the brassy--The stance--Where and how to hit the ball--Playing from cuppy lies--Jab strokes from badly-cuppe...

The average player's favourite club--Fine work for the iron--Its points--The right and the wrong time for play with it--Stance measurements--A warning concerning the address--Th...

The philosopher in a bunker--On making certain of getting out--The folly of trying for length--When to play back--The qualities of the niblick--Stance and swing--How much sand t...