THE CALAMITY OF PUTTING.
Putting i* said to -i ie iUI inspiration; it is much more often & % grievous calamity. Nothing can well be, m e exasperating, to the golfer than that hess ou p l avm g every department of the gt. me in brilliant .style, and yet be putting * xe crablv. He may be getting his ball on. tne green, in the least possible number ~f strokesvisions of a marvellous score fl anoe before his heated imagination, and u, f an ,. v }, 6 slays Bogey and all records with ridiculous ease. • ■■. ' \ Then comes the putt, apparently -simple* aiff comparatively short, which is L, crown , theS»UiceH# '"S B ame \ Instead of lavi „ the ball dead}. §fl within ordinary k „ ut £ ing distance, lie is eith^. lamentably si, or c > or" out of range beyond tlifc ? i^°* e ' ; And so from bole to hole the" disastrous story is continued'; perfect golf till the green is reached, 1 / and then despair and curt™.? } & ~ mentation.- ;■<■- ■■■•"■; , ■■'■■ '■','•■ '".,.^-—.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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162THE CALAMITY OF PUTTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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