Chapter 14

COMPLICATED PUTTS 150

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 slope--A straighter line for the hole--Putting down a hill--Applying drag to the ball--The use of the mashie on the putting-green--Stymies--When they are negotiable and when not--The wisdom of playing for a half--Lofting over the stymie--The run-through method--Running through the stymie--How to play the stroke, and its advantages--Fast greens for fancy strokes--On gauging the speed of a green.