The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-17


laid out links prepared under the aus
pices of CLUBS and experiences golfers
from England. Naturally. links which
have been laid out by an experienced
hand over territory suitable for the
game will be better than others, but,
practically speaking, any boy or man
can make his own links and have
many a good game of golf on them, If
he has territory enough. II you are
at the seashOre, for example, you have
the very best grounds for links in the
sand dunes and the uplands that are
usually within a mile of the beach.
If you are in the mountains, there Is
capital country at hand in ali the fr
Irregularities which are always near
mountains If you are on farm lands,
there are sure to be clumps of trees,
little ravines and dozen other vari
cites of depressions and elevations, all
of which can be utilized. Only one
thing is needed in all this, and thatis,
of course, necessary-a thorough love
of the game and a reasonable supply
of ingenuity.
Here is the whole principle in a
nutshell: The game of golf consists in
driving small balls over the country
and sending them into series OF holes
with mallets or clubs. He who goes
the rounds of the holes in the fewest
strokes wins. The number of holes or
links may be seven, eight, nine, ten or
more. They may be any distance
apart They may be over any kind of
country. If there are only four or five
go over these three or four times for
one game. If you have eighteen, that
is quite enough. Nine is common
number, giving the player eighteen
holes in aIl-that is, nine out and nine
back. AS it is comparatively easy to
uhole" the ball on perfectly level
preensward, the scheme is to secure
Bit of country which offers obstruc-
tions, such as ravines near holes, or
stone walls, sandpIts, or anything OF
this nature In other words, the more
irregular the country, to certain eX-
tent, the better the links.
You who are near the seashore
should work somewhat as follows,
therefore: Go out some day, taking
alon0'your American ingenuity, and
start from soC1e spot near the hotel.
You must select level bit of earth for
a "teeing grounds place to start
from. Perhaps two hundred yarGs
away there is deep sandpit- Here is
your next spot. Take. elk inches OF
four-inch gas pipe and drive it into a
level piece of turf or hard ground near
the sandpit. Excavate the earth in
side the pipe, and there you have
hole six inches deep and four inches
in diameter. When the earth around
the hole has been thoroughly rolled,
Won have the first hole and its "put-
ting green." If, in making your
stroke from the teeing ground, the ball
goes into the sandpit, you have to
drive it out by using the clubs, each
stroke counting against you. The
sandpit or "bunker" is, therefore,
what makes the stroke difficult and
brings out the skill of the player
Perhaps three hundred yards on there
ia a large mound Of earth, or a stone
wall, or a row of trees. Put the sec
ond hole and green just beyond this,
and again this obstruction or "haZaru
will serve its purpose. The distance
NAV be ANY thing from half mile to
three miles over the links. They may
he in a straight line, in irregular lies
or in role.
The game itself consists in hitting
this small ball, which is nearly two
inches in diameter, with one or the
series of clubs from one hole to an
other over the course. You "tee. of"
ar the start by making a little pile of
earth, placing the ball on this Wltn
the hands, and thus securing an OPP
nortunity for a strong stroke with the
cInb. After this the ball cannot be
touched with anything but the CLUB
until it has been holed, except under
certain conditions, when 1t counts
against the player. This first stroke
is, of course, a long drive, the ooJecI
bsine to get as close to the first mole
as nossibie on the first stroke. You
NAV hit a fence, or get into bunker,
or strike a tree. The skill lies in not
doing any of these things, but In drlv-
ING the ball so that il Will stop Wltnin
a few feet of the first hole, II possible
on the green. Then your ooJect Is TO
90 into the hole on the next stroke, or
in the next few strokes. Having once
holed, take the ball out WIN Tue
hands, make another tee and drive Tor
the next hole. At the same time that
YOU are playing, your opponent Is
likewise driving another ball from
hole TO hole. If you go the ROUNDS OF
the links in ninety five STROKES, anu
he does it in ninety-slX or ninety
seven, or any larger number, you nave
won. There are other ways OF count
ing which can be easily learned oy
one who becomes interested III Ihe
game. .., =, +bi,k
inc that a dozen or more clubs are
necessary. They are not, at hrst, at
anv rate. By and by, when you JON
Golf club, and play Oh well laid out
links, with all the retnements pos
sioIe. some of the extra clubs Will per
hans be of use; but for the BOY or
n"png man who is beginning, and
~ I~d does not expect to be champion
n,aver. six clubs are more than enough.
THESE are briefly: IL Tho
The Driver is a wooden clue OF tn ae
kind called "bulger." This Is useu 20
drive the ball when 1t is IN q Sooo
1osition and long, straight distance
Is The ~ DC Brassy is club which is OF
d Int has a shoe of iron, hitting
t MUUu = more preciee and heavier blow:
II is to be used for shorter distances
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