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Potted Golf.
his hands. If you can afford it, the
quickest way to learn golf is to take a
series of lessons from the professional.
For the first lesson or so he will,
should
you
desire it, lend you some
clubs, and from the manner in which
you use these, he will decide how
to make your full equipment. In any
case, with expert advice you cannot
get far wrong.
For your own self-respect, however,
don't enter a professional golfer's work-
shop and exclaim didactically, as did
one novice in my experience, " I want
a set of clubs. The heads of the
wooden clubs must be either of apple
or beech, the shafts either of lemon or
lancewood. They must have a little
feel at the bottom of the shaft. The
colour of the heads must be white,
not stained, and the heads of the irons
must be hand forged." He had been
reading an out-of-date book. Beech
and apple are seldom used in these
days, and it is quite unnecessary to
preserve the club-head white. The
idea that the wood is stained to hide
knots or flaws is entirely unworthy ;
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