Title: The Silver Cleek
First published: 1908
Description: Paul Evens, president of the Golden Hill Golf Club, suddenly leaves the country on an extended tour. For two years his friends have no news of him except an occasional postal, and one day are surprised to receive a strange letter in which he announces the coming of an Indian Prince, whom he has met on his travels and whom he has taught to play golf. The Prince and his sister arrive at the club and become objects of special interest. The Prince, who always uses a silver cleek, after playing with several of the members, wins a game from Tom Brown, the champion, by just one stroke. Some had suspicions about the Prince and his game of golf, but none were able to define them. The day after the great game Paul Evens returns, and at a dinner given by the Prince and Princess many things are explained, principally the Prince's secret in playing the perfect game of golf, which he describes as "the necessary nerve force, eyesight, trained to a perfect judge of distance, muscles and mind acting in perfect harmony, and a willpower exerted to its fullest extent on an unconscious adversary." This power, however, he assured them had only been used as a test for some scientific consideration in a book which Paul Evens was writing.
Subjects: Golf, Classic American golf fiction, Golf course, Golf fiction, Golf in fiction
LC classification: PZ3.H3374 S