Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-29
SOME TRICK SHOTS
on THE COLE LINKS.
After You Have Learned to Play You
Can Begin to Practice Shots for
the "GaIIery."

After You Have Learned to Play You
Can Begin to Practice Shots for
the Gallery"
Golfers and geometridans agree in
one belief, that a straight line is the
shortest distance between two points.
In the effort TO get from tee to hole in
the fewest strokes this rule is always in
the mind of the golf player, and,
whether in driving or approaching. to
be off the line is a reproach, while
in putting, unless a stroke is purposely
made TO take advantage of a slope or
furrow on the turf, not to play straight
for the cup is dire disgrace. This OBJ
legation TO get there" is so strong that
it effectually banishes merely spectacu-
lar play or trick shots.
When the balls lie within six inches
OF each other-measured from their
nearest points-the ball closest to the
hole may be Ted until the other is
played
In medal play --e opponent must lift
whenever his bah is in the line OF your
put, but in match PLAY, when more
than six inches apart, it is a stymie.
The ball furthest away must be
played over the intervening one to
make the hole. unless by taking ad-
vantage of an uRevenness, the cup may
be made by playing s--ghtly OFF the di-
rect line. Stymie is an old Scotch
word, meaning the .faintest form of
anything"
a Scotch Stroke.
1t is a good definition to express the
delicacy with which the stroke must bs
played. 1t is the fanciest stroke in the
game and a legitimate one, for the is
sue cannot be shirked without losing
caste.
IN playing it lofting iron takes the
place Of the putter 1t is held loosely
in the hand, so that the face will go
we'll under the ball, lifting and placing
cut on it simultaneously. Cut also
called "doss" by the golfers, CORES
ponds TO the reverse twist in billiards,
the effect being to check the forward
roI- Of the ball. In a well played
stymie the ball is pitched over the in
tervening one, and, after describing a
half-circle in the air, drops into the
hole. 1t is very pretty play but a
most uncertain one. a novice may per-
form il brilliantly at >-e first attempt,
yet no professional, although gray in
the game, can be absolutely safe in
making il.
Cut also ngures in a SNOWY style
of approaching, sometimes a necessary
stroke when the green is on an eleva-
ton guarded by a bunker. but only
played on a level ground, as a rule, to
impress the spectators.
Il consists in pitching the ball on the
putting green with the lofting iron, the
cut making II stop dead near the
hole. or by glorious luck, drop surely
into the cup. The position is the same
as for the ordinary, half stroke, but the
right hand IS held loose, and the stroke.
rather across the ball than straight
forward, is finished OF by the turn Of
ice wrists alone.
At tennis spin can be put on Lne ball
bv laying the racket back. In the
same way cut can be put on a golf
ball so that il will spout I'D nearly
straight in the air, and after a rise OF
sixty or hundred feet Will fall within
thirty feet OF the player.
This is a purely trick stroke of no
advantage whatever ii the game. but
in the idle moment IL is not unusual 70
see group Of players attempting the
shot. The iron is held with the face
very fiat and the stroke made with a