It is doubtful how far the following injunctions are obligatory as laws of the game, except by courtesy, but there is no doubt that they ought to be observed, and there is also no doubt that custom authorises the enforcing of the most of them, and that in one instance, at least, by very drastic measures.

The following customs belong to the established Etiquette of Golf and should be observed by all golfers.

1. No player, caddie, or onlooker should move or talk during a stroke.

2. No player should play from the tee until the party in front have played their second strokes and are out of range, nor play to the putting-green till the party in front have holed out and moved away.

There is no rale more religiously and jealously enforced than this one, and disregard of it is held as entitling the party played into to drive back the offender's ball. Of course no one would resort to this extreme measure unless the provocation were great and the breach of etiquette repeated more than once after due remonstrance.

3. The player who leads from the tee should be allowed to play before his opponent tees his ball.

The reason for this is that the second b;dl may catch the eye of the player who is about to drive, and so interfere with his stroke.

4. Players who have holed out should not try their putts over again when other players are following them.

5. Players looking for a lost ball must allow any other match coming up to pass them.

The match behind cannot be asked to wait until the players looking for the lost ball have exhausted the statutory limit of time under Rule 28. The following couples are entitled to go on without pause, and it is only courteous for the couple causing the delay to permit of this without cavil.

(i. A party playing three or more bulls must allow a two-ball match to pass them.

The two-ball match must have started and played in regular course to entitle them to pass the three ball-match. A three-ball match should not be played on a busy green except by first-class golfers, and then only with consent of the following couples. Good golfers playing a three-ball match do not, as a rule, block or keep back the succeeding couples.

7. A party playing a shorter round must allow a two-ball match playing the whole round to pass thorn.

8. A player should not putt at the hole when the flag is in it.

9. The reckoning of the strokes is kept by the terms 'the odd,' 'two more,' 'three more,'etc., and 'one off' three' 'one off two,' the like,' The reckoning of the holes is kept by the terms so many 'holes up,' or 'all even,' and so many 'to play.'

10. Turf cut or displaced by a stroke in playing should be at once replaced.