The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-04

itself ought not to. be less than sixty square
feet and as level and smooth as it is poss BILE
to get 1t, the location of the hole being de-
signated by disc or flag placed IN the center
or the hole and taken out when approaching
and replaced after scoring. The '.tee.ng
ground, which is conveniently adjacent to
eacn mole, is space marked out within the
limits OF which the bali must be 'teed."
Ihe object of the game is to put a small
gutta percha ball into series of holes in
the least number. of strokes. and it can be
played follows: II @7 stet tss,
Singles-Two persons playing one against
the other, each person having a ball and
counting by holes and not by the strokes
taken for the whole round. 7s@aR ~
Foursomes-Two persons playing against
the other two the partners playing alternate
strokes. each side having its own ball
Ihree, -Four, Five-Ball Ma4ches-A crack
payer VIII play his ball against the best of
the balls OF two or more players, tx ~
The usual play is hole play, but for com
petitions the player who makes the round
In the fewest strokes Is the winner and this
is called medal play.
AT the commencement of the game the
payer puts little pat Of sand down on
the teeing ground and puts his ball on top
ton of the first hole. After that. until he
holes" his ball, he must play it strictly
from Its place as it happens to be, in sand,
bunker, or elsewhere and not touch it again
until he picks it out of the first hole, pre-
paratory to teeing it again to drive to the
second MOLE, and SO on until he has gone
the COURSE lie can take it out of
any bunker by losing two strokes or out
OF any unplayable place not a bunker by
losing one stroke.
The approach and the putting are by
far the most difficult, critical and important
parts OF the game, although no one who is
not fairly competent to drive his ball will
ever be likely to, rank first-classs player
me maximum length of a good driving
stroke may be fairly said to be something
over 10 yards and under 200, always sup
posing that the player is not favored by
any exceptional circumstances, although 1t is
a recorded fact that F. G. TAFT drove ball
2sO yards OF clear carry, carefully measured,
at ST. Andrews, Scotland.
Perhaps there is no game where prejudice
influences the players mind as in this one,
and a man will swear by the maker of a
club or ball, because he pulls off a match
by being in good form, but which he ascribes
to the merits of the tools he is handlings
The shafts of golf clubs made of orange
wood, Lakewood, blue-mahoo, greenheart, and
last and best, hickory the heads of pear,
apple tree and a lot of other. .woods and vul-
canite, but nothing has been found to equal
beech, Of which nine-tenths of all heads are
made. The ball used in the game is made
of gutta percha, and size as shown in cut.
There are two styles of clubs, the wood and
the iron clubs. Both have handles or shafts
usually made of hickory, which is considered
the best wood for that purpose. The head
of the wood club is made of beech, apple or
hornbeam; the first named is most generally
preferred. Wood clubs, shod or soled with
brass are called brassieS.o The iron club
differs from the brass club only in the head.