Spirit of the links

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and others prefer the Assouan course, in the making
of which Mr. John Low had much say and which he
has visited since. Here the greens are made of rolled
Nile mud. But most prefer the Mena House course,
which is laid out on a bit of the very small area of
grass there is in Egypt, which is so precious that
players are requested to play only in rubber-soled
shoes for fear of breaking it. For part of each
year the course is under water. Not only is there
grass here, but the course is laid out alongside
the Great Pyramid, the shadow of which is thrown
across it. This Great Pyramid
-2,000,000
cubic feet
of stone—gives golfers a queer feeling if they catch
sight of it when swinging for their drive. When
Napoleon was beginning the battle of the Pyramids
hereabouts, he said to his men, " Soldiers ! from the
summit of yonder Pyramid forty ages behold you."
That is so, and the golfers may wish they did not.
They may think it is no game for spectators of this
kind.
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Many golfers, like others who are not golfers, have
come to the conclusion that in the twentieth century
it were better for them and their game to think and
grow thin. One of the most enthusiastic and deter-
mined says that success in the game depends chiefly
on the stomach, and one is half inclined to think that
he is right. He is, to this extent, that it is hard to
play fine golf when the interior mechanism is in bad
working order. And it is quite apparent that we
modern golfers, like other people who are outside the
pale of our noble game, are not the possessors of such
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