Potted golf

Potted Golf.
contrary, keep your eye on the ball.
Be up. This is to say, make sure, if
you can, that your ball will at least
finish near the hole. There is nothing
more exasperating in golf than time
after time to see your ball stop short
on the lip of the hole. Another inch,
and there would have been a stroke
saved. The best putters always give
the ball a chance, on the principle that
if it goes two feet too far this is no worse
than being two feet short, while, given
proper direction, there has been the
possibility of holing out.
As to short putts, let the wrist be
stiff. I do not emphasise this. It may
be that you will like to use a flexible
wrist with the short ones as with the
long ones, and nobody can seriously
quarrel with you. The late Mr Everard
defined holing-out range as within
about sixteen feet of the hole, and
within that range, he said, flexion of
wrist should cease. He added that
many good putters did not agree with
him, and that it is a matter of individual
preference. Mr E. A. Lassen, the
Yorkshireman who has held the Ama-
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