Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-24
Golf for Women.

Coli is a game not so much of
strength as of skill. The putting
little balls into little holes" is, so far
as it goes, a quite accurate description
OF sport which has enlisted the en-
thusiasm of the brightest men and
women in England, and is fast making
proslytes of the same classes in Amer
lca. The club at Southampton is an
excellent model both in its personnel
and in the facilities for playing with
which it is provided. There are on its
grounds two sets of links, one for men
and one for women. The mems links
comprise eleven holes, and are two
and a half miles in length, at the
same time covering much more diff
cult ground than the women's links,
which comprise nins holes and are
only mile and a half in length.
To the uninitiated it may be ex-
planned that the name "links" is
given to the chain Of holes, from one
to the other of which the ball is batted.
always from the ground, by the vari-
GUS sticks used. The start is made
from "tee," that is, little heap of
sand two or three inches in height,
which each player makes, taking the
sand from the green boxes before men,
toned. For instance, in the South
ampton tournament, Mrs. Frederick
Belts struck off first. Taking hand
full OF sand from the box, she made a
tee" in marked spot, and placed
on its apex white gutta-percha ball.
A handful OF assorted clubs lay be-
side her; slender things they were,
from three to five feet in length, their
handles wound about with leather so
they would not slip, and with variety
OF wooden or metal "heads" at the
other end. Selecting what is called
the driver" long stick, perhaps an
inch in diameter, with wooden head,
Mrs. Belts gave it coupel of trial
swings. Then grasping it firmly, she
placed the head of it just back OF the
ball, and after glancing in the direc-
ton of the next hole, denoted by a
flag, shew drew back the club, lifting
it high in the air, and with a great
downward swing let it drive at the
ball resting so lightly on the tee" OF
sand. Zip! went the gutta. percha
globe as it sailed across the small ra-
vine, and landed a hundred yards
away on the side OF the next hillock.
Then she stepped aside, and Mrs.
Mead teed" her ball and struck off.
Now, at the foot of that small ravine
there was what is called a" hazard"
that is, some difficulty introduced to
render the balls transit from one hole
to another less easy. In this case a
bank of earth had been raised to a
height OF three feet; and Mrs. Mead's
ball, sailing rather low, struck this OBJ
stacle and fell back. There were two
ways out of the difficulty. Either she
could "tack" out of it-that is, strike
her ball alongside the bank up to the
end OF it and then 60 ahead-or she
could try "lofting" it over the obstruc-
ton. She tried the latter. In no
case may ball be aided by any other
means than a fair blow with the stick.
Pushing, showing, or deliberately lift
ing the ball with the stick is forbidden.
Mrs. Mead struck the ball with the
" lofter," but it failed to clear the
bank, and fell back. Another stroke
proved more successful, and the two
players advanced in couple of strokes
to the quitting green" level square
OF turf, in the center of which hole
is situated. After each had succeeded
in holeing her ball, they picked them
up and walked on some twenty feet to
the next teeing square, where they
struck off for the next hole.
As soon as the first couple have
gone to the second teeing square,
another couple strikes off from the
first one, and so on. so that as many
as sixteen people could be playing on
the women's links at one time. Score
is kept OF the number of strokes noces-
sary to get the ball from each "tee" to
the next hole, and these are cast up
at the close of the game.
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