Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-02
GOLF GOSSIP

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reach that standard OF excellence that
one has set up for oneself as an ideal,
there may be nothing in any of them
that calls for remembrance, says F.
l.. Puxley In Golfing But every now
/ and again something of superexcel-
Ience occurs that will warm our
hearts even to remember IN those far
of days. This something" il is that
makes golf the queen of games she
Is, However one may forget his play
In after days, the thoughts go back
/ 10 that heroic shot that won hole
which had already been lost: in the
midst of missed drives and fooled
approaches one reflects that what has
happened once may happen again, and
ar any moment .- - F..
And so yoH take fresh courage and
address your balm hope.
One such shot occurs to me. II was
during the final OF the cup eompeti-
tiCn which was the principal event in
the particular club To which I refer.
All through the morning round ! had
played execrable golf, so that at
lunchtime ] was four down; and with
my opponent playing as he had sell
dom played before there seemed but
little probability that I would be able
TO make up the leeway in the after
noon. But the conversation of friends
at lunch encouraged me to renewed
efforts, so that as we went TO the first
tee felt more confident. In conse
quence | played a bit above my form.
We were all square at the eleventh,
and then began neck-and-neck strug
gle. Hole after hole, We halyed in
or under DOGGY till we reached the
thirty-fifth. Now. this hole was my
pet abomination. Though only 200
yards long. it was up hill. and with
the prevailing wind dead against the
ball very full drive was required
to reach the green, which was heay-
lily bunkered
Good Lie from Bad Slice.
In fear and trepidation | addressed
my ball-with the inevitable result
With that horrible sound that tells
Of bad slice the ball skidded off the
heel of my club bare so yards at an
obtuse angle to the line of the hole.
Then my adversary drove long clean
shot that landed him hole-high to the
right of the green. When | reached
my ball | found II lying in an unex.
pectedly good lie I'm the rough, but
between the hole and me yawned
savage bunker.
In an agony of desperation called
for my mid iron and played long
low shot on the right foot The apee
tators who we're gathered about the
bunker scattefed as my ball SCARED /
above II. and as came mp to green
I gathered from their pointed fingers |
that something cut of the common
had occurred. could barely restrain /
myself to maintain the necessary at |
titude OF calm, and when | had fetch |
ed compass about that bunker | |
found my ball lying within nine |
inches OF the pin. noticed the qHiv- |
ering lips OF my adversary. From his /
point of view the position was beyond /
human utterance, and at such mo-
ment the outraged feelings must find
some outlet. 1t was on the cards /
that he might lose a hole that to ali
intents and purposes was already his.
Taking his mashie he could do no bet. |
ter than lay himself about 10 feet |
from the hole. He missed the putt |
and the rest of the game requires no
description.
Another outstanding shot that re-
ours to me was one with the niblick.
This weirdest OF all golf clubs plays
strange tricks with one at times, now
exceedingly iattering TO the golfer,
now very much the reverse; at times
docile as park hack, at others frisky
as two-year-old; at another il will
utterly refuse to deal with one lying
In very moderately rough grass.
We were playing in foursome com
petition, and both myself and my
partner had become unsteady owing
TO a succession Of misfortunes We
had already played the odd, and now /
I was called upon to negotiate q so
yard piblock shot from behind. sand.
hill, our adpersaries lying just off
the green. By some strange freak Of
fortune the ball pitched four yards
from the hole and ran dead. We won
the hole. and thence forward all was
plain sailing.
Good Recovery Often Wins.
But why multiply instances of what
must have occurred to every gelfer2
The moral Is clear. 1t Is the man
who never loses heart who wins his
matches, he who with the luck against
him goes plodding steadily on his way
hoping for better tires, will often pull
o game out of the fire, either in golf
or a wider pastime. And one good
recovery often turns the fortunes OF
the links. for 1t has an equally power
full moral eL~~. both upon the strik-
er and his adversary. To any player
who finds himself in a tight corner
would say that no game is lost till
the last shot has been played, and
that what has been done once may be
done again. Devote your whole atten-
ton to every individual shot, and do
not forget that holes have been done /,
in one before this Many hole has
been taken with a driver, more with
a brassie: and if wooden clubs are
capable of this, surely nothing is i'm.
possible that is within reach of ones
ironi II
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