Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-16

DrFFERS AT GOLF ARE BUFFERS
BECAUSE THEY WON'T PRACTLcE
oE Wiougbby Prescrbe8 for Victims of Mutch Plan Moy;o
WIN Golfers Smoke and Hoo Then Do H-Rau and H.
Compdntonable Pjpe-Women Plan at Cricket Cilb

.,f,er in golf stays in the duffer
.,iv because he refuses to take
w q, and practice when he realizes
g no upward curve at all to his
~ ssys Hugh willoushby. Philadel-
..snnlon. "The only thing for a
do when he persistently cannot
shot is to take the following
!, rolf medicine: O Two dozen
IN c2I one kit Of clubs. t9 One
~ "a one day off
we're a golf doctor that is what
"a nrescribe. Let the patient go
w hit,seif to some secret recess on
I've spread out the golf balls and
" IN each shot he Is weak on till he
out what has been his fault and
,orrected It. 1 defy any one 20 Say
aoif is simply matter of going up
cI,ina the bail. There is most cer-
'srly wrong and right way OIL oolns
sthh man that studies the game ana,
sctioe. has acquired the shots, s
s,Sn who plays partly in the SOS and
~xlly In the 7Vs'
same people think they are finished
rs when they can stand up TO a
snd get off a good drive, But where
scoring Is done is with the irons.
a.,s essp at the way stars get out of
@bs Yet the knowledge of how to
IN ball when 1t is In trouble Is
4, What makes the expert. A good
,,ys doesn't do poor player much good
s.ssiae he doesn't know what to do with
sis next shot, or IL he does, he can't make
-.
~, half the shots for the hole are
N grapn fu reanhaA fe n
VA thing indeed to catch any golfer
s,sellclng up on his putting. Here again
,ba expert triumphs because he ia will
~ 10 study the matter and has the
sstisnce to practice. No one expects to
i,ts up q billiard cue and hole out the
,hots without knowing what to put
n the ball-how the shot should be
made. And yet buffers in golf. who
ssvsr do more than push the ball toward
wonder why they cannot hole out the
lmg ones, which the expert does con-
Itanty.
II blame the fact that more than IS
AT cent. of Philadelphia golfers have a
handicap of more than 10, which Is very
MAJ, on their incessant playing and only
h matches. They make poor shots, and
hey keep on making poor shots until Il
becomes habit because they won't take
tine out to practice and correct their
iaats.
Lots OF buffers say they play for exer-
,lse But l, for one, fail to see any health
benefits In spraining ones very liver at
eyery shot and tearing ones nervous sys-
ten apart because all the shots go wrong.
The duffer is either in frenzy or else
dead tired when he comes in after is
holes If he would only realize how health
ful and joyful the game Is when Il Is
played smoothly and right, perhaps he
would take little time for practice"
And willoughby dropped a dozen balls to
spruce up his mashie play a bit
Golfers who are smokers do not. as a
rule, let up on the links. A peaceful
smoke to snatch at now and then helps to
steady one during round, they say. If
ones failing is cigarettes. it is the thing
TO light UP while the opponent is driving
The scratch of the match is annoying,
and then he has an Irresistible impulse to
forget his shot
Some golfers drag the smoke way down