GOLF NOTES.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1401, 8 September 1923, Page 6

GOLF NOTES.

HOW MANY CLUBS TO CARRY. I agree there are certain clubs which you cannot get on without (remarks Sid Wingate. the famous English professional), but each is difficult to master and one only adds to the trial- of the name bv increasing the number beyond a fixed limit. Personally, 1 have never carried more than eight, and I hope I shall not require more. My bag contains a driver and spoon as the wooden clubs—when I go away from home I have a spare driver in case my old one should break—and a driving iron, mid iron, a mongrel iron, which is perhaps more like a jigger than any other club, a mashie, niblick and putter. It comes as a bit of a shock to most golfers to be told by Wingate that constant cleaning undoubtedly impairs clubs. "The weight is reduced," he says, "and in all probability the balance destroyed. It is for this reason that many players leave their irons rusty. Personally. 1 like to play with clean clubs, but when they are cleaned f give instructions that the striking surface of the face must not. be touched. So they are dull in the centre of the face, but clean in other parts."