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head down." Thus, the ball must not remain within the field of vision during the early stage of its light. For a frac tion of a second that object is permitted to disappear from view, while the eyes Once upon a time, a rovice in purst remain fixed upon the spot which it bas of the game

which hath been styll just vacated. This is one of the hardest "Royal and Ancient," lid wand his my ordeals of the golfer. He paturally de apart from his fellows to a certain sires to watch toe ball all the time, from tired place within the precincts, dig the moment it leaves the tee. Well, that ing to practise in secret. It was in le means violating a cardinal rule which time of daisie, nad the notice, it forbids him to lift his head until the finish of the stroke. And yet the follow~~ to play himself in, as it were, did and through is such a very brief affair that him of the pleasing conditions under fet the eye may pick up the ball possibly fr** to set about every small daisy that gryfore it is fity yards on its way, and

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with that concession to the curiosity which legitimately inspires everyone, 30 witness his own handiwork, the golfer must learn to rest content Certain it is that no good golfer can ever see the whole of his own game!

Keeping the head down is the supreme passiva factor in golf. If we fail in that nothing else matters very much. Not the least evil effect of head lifting is to

And he note the unrealsg daisies full many times with lusty awin ing of his implements, marvelling all to while at the excellence of his skill, much that be was beguiled into rock ing the exact number of swings it hoved him to concede a certain pestilat member, who had heretofore put it acroes him, as it is said. Now, when the daisies within a fair space of groud had been in such manner demolished, he novice did not proced to exercise is impose a drag or check on the follow. With the net of looking up through skill upon a select number of golfing hals there is an inevitable slackening of of the species known as "redecorate offert. This is merely an instance of that with which he had come provide correlation between the visual and But, greatly to his surprise and likomotor functions, commonly enough ob- to his chagrin, he did presently fit

erved. When the head is raised pre- his prowess as a daisy-smiter was of shall maturely, the hands fail to go forward Account. For he was not slow to learn and upward in that comfortable and ample that, though a golfing ball doth bak weep which characterises a good finish. large by comparison, it is passed Rather do they continue round the body, lusive qualities not shared by the modest carrying the club awkwardly across the daisyrerein deth lie a curious pam-line of flight, to produce a slice in ad- dox that was up against him, as 016 dition to loss of listange. Here, again, might say. And so he did auffer mub the novice scores with his daisy practice. mortification of spirit for not seldom dd When he swings at a daisy he is only it happen that he was strangely baffled concerned to hit it, he has no thought of in making good his aim, and even what cherving its flight, even if such a fimsy he did in a manner click, yet did he object could be propelled to any purpose. Accountably fail to mite the full in a So the chances are that he succeeds in fashion clean, and to despatch it to keeping his head down while the club "goodly distance along the Way that is goes freely on in a smooth and vigorous called "Fair," as the game doth requi. follow-through, finishing the stroke in Moreover, in the rough pastures that to good style. Obarrets, to the left, and especially to the right of that Way Bundry, of the balls succession did obstinately disapper, though later in the well-same day thy were miraculously found by a certain small cad, who had marked the untoward incidents from afar, but who, after he guilelcas custom of his tribe, did refrain. from giving a sign. And the novice in his humiliation, did east sharp and bitter reproaches upon the implements that had served him so capriciously, even regarding them with homicidal intest and he was” fain emphasise the wrath that was in him by the use of an infinite variety of strong words, such as do pro ceed from the lips of stern men who go down to battle in the trenches. Lastly, retracing his steps to snug apartment which had not gone dry, there to extract solace by easy stages, the novico was in- spired to propound to himself a quaint conceit, to wit the following:-"“Golf were a simple pastime, but for the ball

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