Chapter 4

THE CHOICE AND CARE OF CLUBS 37

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 six--Points of the driver--Scared wooden clubs are best--Disadvantages of the socket--Fancy faces--Short heads--Whip in the shaft--The question of weight--Match the brassy with the driver--Reserve clubs--Kinds of cleeks--Irons and mashies--The niblick--The putting problem--It is the man who putts and not the putter--Recent inventions--Short shafts for all clubs--Lengths and weights of those I use--Be careful of your clubs--Hints for preserving them.