The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-22
MYSTERIOUS GAME.
Only the Initiated Knows the Uses of the
Various Clubs.

Only the initiated know the uses to
which various golf clubs are put and it
takes a SD degree player to handle all.
The variety is confusing to the novice
and Iayman. While there are nearly 20
clubs in all, only about half a dozen are
| essential to a proper outfit, including, say,
driver, brassie niblick, cleek, mashie.
iron and putter. 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 persimmon
or dogwood; the last named is most gen
| orally preferred. Wood clubs, shod or
| soled with brass, are called brassies. The
\ iron club differs from the wood club only
| in the head, which, as the name indi-
Gates, is made entirely of mild steel. Fol
| lowing is O complete list of golf clubs, as
| given by Spalding's Official Golf Guide:
! Wood clubs-Drivers, long spoons, mid
! spoons, short spoons, baffy, brassie nib
ticks, bulger drivers, bulger brassies,
Irons-Cieeks, iron niblicks, putting
cleeks, drying cleeks, lofting irons, driv-
ing irons. mashies, gun metal putters,
The putter is used for playing short
| strokes on the putting green. Short, stiff
shaft. with head nearly at right angles to
| shaft.
|
| the iron clubs, with the face only slight
The driving iron is deeper in the blade
| than the cleek and has more loft; not as
| long a driver as the cleek, DuI VIII pllcn
| the ball higher
| lofting iron and the niblick, is shorter in
| the head than the iron, but has less loft
than the niblick; used for short ap-
= The Ffle niblicl used for getting ball out
| of hazards, cart ruts, ETC.; has a small
rounded head, very heavy and very much
Letting iron, nearly same as driving
! iron, but much more lofted Will pitch
Mia iron. same as lofting iron, but blade
is not pitched so much; will drive long,
| high ball.
Driver or play club is the longest driv-
| ing club there is; used to drive from the
| tee or wherever the ball lies well and
! long distance Is required. -
| The brassie, same as driver, but with
| brass plate on sole and genera4ly nltte
more lofted; for use in playing through
'N Brassie niblick: much smaller head
than the driver, with face Wen spooned
! hack. sole shod with brass; used through
| The green with the object of raising the
ball in the air when playing from "a
cuppy lie" - -.
same as brassie. but very much spooned,
! shafts long. short and medium; almost
entirely superseded by the iron club.
There is a code of etiquette In golI
which is observed by all players. The
| main points are; ,,.
No player. caddie or onlooker shouId
move or talk during a stroke.
No player should play from the zee
until the party in front have played their
| second strokes and are out of range, nor
plav to the putting green till the party IN
| front have holed out and moved away.
| THE player who leads from the Tee
! should be allowed to play before his OPP
| ponent tees his ball.
PLAYERS who have holed out should not
| try their puts over again When olher
| nlavers are following Them
| PLAYERS looking fer a lost pail must
| allow any other match coming on to pass
| them. .,,o,a ha1ls
must allow a two-ball match TO pass
a party playing a shorter round must
| allow a two-ball match playing the Whole
/ round to pass them.
| a nlaver should not put at the hole
when the flag is in it.
! THE reckoning of the strokes Is kepL Dy
the terms "the odd" two more, three
more . etc, and zone off three, "one on
| two :" "the like" The reckoning OF the
holes IS kept by the terms-so many
sboles up''Gor ''all even''-and-so many
ito play. 800 - a strolre IN
| plaving should be at once replaeeo-