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"sHoRT GOLF" WINS RECRUITS.
Points About n Form OF the OLD Game That IL
Growing In Favor.

Points About n Form OF the OLD Game That 10
Growing in Favor.
There Is O form of golf sanctioned even Mt st.
Andrews, in Scotland, yet which can be played
to perfection on an ordinary croquet plot or
tennis lawn. Less wearing on the strength than
the ordinary game. yet by no means unprofta-
BILE rs an open-air exercise, and a social rather
than a solemn and earnest pursuit, the new type
of golf is winning friends even faster than the
regular game. for it is being taken up by many
clubs and individuals where there is no links.
aside from its popularity as we'll as at the ortho-
dox golf clubs. 1t is called short golf. to distin-
guish 1t from the full round. Women take most
fondly to short golf. yet men play or practice at
It, whilo mixed foursomes and other competi-
tions abound wherever it has been introduced.
Sometimes short golf is known as the putting
game. II may be played on any closely cropped
in fact. many prefer a slightly undulating turf.
There are six holes. each ten or twelve yards
from its tee, which is merely an imaginary line
between two pennants thrust into the ground
The holes are Of the regulation depth and width
and are marked with numbered disks. differing
only from the ordinary cup on a putting Groen
in their close arrangement. Both tees and
cups must ST. be changed ed often in order that q
play. and so make holing out too easy. At Ards
ley and Knollwood the holes are changed almost
daily, but at the smaller clubs the changes are
The general line Of, a putting links is a circle. or
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will finish close to the starting point.
Either twelve or eighteen holes are usually
played by each contestant in n regular compe-
hole out Is the winning, score, 4 1t is a scratch
wins. Usually the contestants play in pairs,
and two or more pairs may be on the links to.
from tee 10 hole for each couple. In brief. tho
rules and etiquette OF golf. as defined by the
short golf MS in the long game. Ordinary golf
balls and putters are used. In a special match
1t is sometimes stipulated that n certain ball
usually allowedto put with any. club they pre-
fer, or with an umbrella handle If they wish. as
In true golf:
of laying out the first putting links near this city.
In 1896, but Ardsley and other clubs quickly
adopted the idea. During the coming season
wider popularity than ever before. The OUTFIT
| needed IL only q half-dozen, %putters, q box of
balls, n hole cutter, cups. disks and pennants.
When a club or coterie possesses the needed
lawn space the cost OF the paraphernalia 10 in.
significant.
Another form of the game 10 to play at APP
preaching and putting by making two OF the
holes longer than the others and placing q
bunker between the tee and the cup. The vari-
ations that may be introduced by following out
this change are endless. The most simple plan
the line OF the course, to compel the use OF a
| mashie in clearing the obstacle. and thus AFFORD
good practice At approaching as well as boiling
out. The net should be ten yards from the tee
| and the hole ten yards further away. One net.
to be crossed going out TO the third hole and In
| returning to the fourth will, suffice. A. par
| score for an ordinary Six-holo putting links
would be three strokes to each hole. or eighteen
strokes to tho round. But single holes are
often scored In two strokes, or even In one. To
sum up. short golf has come TO stay. even though
championship aspirations at the regular game,
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