This book is intended mainly for beginners, but the author wishes
to disclaim any connection with the following recent incident: An
equally venturesome writer, preferring expert opinion before offering
his MSS to a publisher, submitted it to a well-known professional
player. In due course the reply came back, " Dear Sir, I have
read your book with much pleasure, and it seems a very nice game. I
feel bound to say, however, that I prefer golf"!
| Title | The Golfer's Manual (Illustrated) |
| Author | W. Meredith Butler |
| Publisher | T. Werner Laurie |
| Year | 1907 |
| Copyright | 1907 |
The Golfer's Manual
(Illustrated)
BY
W. MEREDITH BUTLER
With an Introduction by Dr MACNAMARA, M.P.
LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE
CLIFFORD'S INN, FLEET STREET
A Complete Set Of Clubs
1. The Driver. (Note. The Brassey is almost identical but has a brass sole.)
2. The baffy.
3. The Cleek.
4. The iron.
5. The mashie.
6. The niblick.
7. The iron putter (wry-necked).
8. The wooden putter.
Some 'Translations' by a Kadi- Sic itur ad astra - thus the hitter goes astray. Si monumentum quaeris, circumspice - if you want to tee up your ball, have a good look round first. De mortuis nil ...
- Foreword
- It is indeed but a small return I can make to the writer of this pleasantly practical little treatise on Golf. For the fact is the author is my golfing godfather. On a certain genial autumn ...
- Preface
- This book is intended mainly for beginners, but the author wishes to disclaim any connection with the following recent incident: An equally venturesome writer, preferring expert opinion before ...
- The Royal And Ancient Game Of Golf. History And Development
- The origin of golf seems to belong to the category of those events that are wrapt in mistery. If we are to believe hoary tradition, what is now an absorbing pastime, attracting its ...
- The Royal And Ancient Game Of Golf. p2 History And Development
- The universal character of the game is evidenced in the growing taste for it shown by the artisan class, and in its hold upon and suitability for persons of all ages and grades of society. The ...
- A Vocabulary Of Golf: A-F
- The language of golf is somewhat mystifying to the uninitiated, and harsh to all but those who speak with the tongues of golfers. Those who would read succeeding pages with understanding may well ...
- A Vocabulary Of Golf: G-P
- Gobble. A putt ill-judged as to strength but which, owing to its straightness (and some luck, humorously called pot-luck), falls into the hole. Green, 1, The whole ...
- A Vocabulary Of Golf: R-W
- Rub of the green. See Rule 22. Rubber-core. A ball with a core of rubber strands encased in a thin cover of guttapercha. Run. See Carry. Sclaff. To strike the ground behind ...
- A Foreword To Golf Beginners
- Golf demands, among other attributes, the faculties of imitativeness and physical flexibility only to be found, outside the genus simia, in anything like perfect combination, in the human boy. As ...
- How To Choose And Treat One's Clubs
- The beginner has already been warned not to rush forth with his bag of clubs to do the round like experienced players, but rather to place himself unreservedly in the hands of the professional or ...
- How To Choose And Treat One's Clubs. Part 2
- The iron should have a moderately-lofted face and should not be unduly light. The mashie, being used for shorter distances and for shots needing a higher trajectory, needs to be shorter in the ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving
- Driving is an Art Well begun, half done. This is a maxim that has a particular application to the art of driving well. While proficiency in effective ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving. The Grip
- The first steps to be mastered in the use of the driver are (1) the position to be taken up in relation to the ball, and (2) the grip of the club. These are so closely associated that it matters ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving. The Stance
- Teeing the ball. - We may now venture to introduce the club-head to the ball. On the teeing ground we are in the most favoured position of any stroke to be made during the progress of the ball ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving. The Address and Swing
- There is still a point or two to be considered before we embark on that most momentous factor of all strokes - the swing. We have our club in an effective grip, and we are, we hope, in harmonious ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving. The Swing
- The Swing. - N.B. The swing here described is that designed to suit the open stance; the other with the left foot in front of the right necessarily involves the describing of a ...
- The Way To Play Golf: I. Driving. The Brassey and the Baffy
- With apologies both to a proverb and to a friendly club, the brassey may be said to step in where the driver fears to tread; the one is the steeple-chaser, unmindful of and even rejoicing ...
- The Way To Play Golf: II. Approaching
- Iron play is a Science An approach shot may be defined as one which needs to accomplish a distance less than that of a full drive, and it is therefore ...
- The Way To Play Golf: II. Approaching. The Iron
- The shafts of iron clubs should be quite stiff; there must be no whippiness, since dead accuracy is the object of the stroke; besides, the exigencies of the stroke often involve the ...
- The Way To Play Golf: II. Approaching. The Cleek
- The cleek is a favourite implement with many of the best players, who use it with great effect under varying conditions. In ordinary play, it forms a serviceable substitute for the brassey when a ...
- The Way To Play Golf: II. Approaching. The Mashie
- The mashie is shorter than the iron, is fairly well lofted and has a deep blade. It is used for short shots up to about eighty or ninety yards; for distances beyond that it is unwise to bring it ...
- The Way To Play Golf: II. Approaching. The Niblick
- The niblick may well be described as the pis aller club, and the golfer rarely takes it out of his bag with any pleasurable feelings. It is said that the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour once spent a ...
- The Way To Play Golf: III. Putting
- Putting is an Inspiration Putting, unlike the other strokes of the game, does not invite success through the medium of carefully - graded instruction, patiently and ...
- The Way To Play Golf: III. Putting. Part 2
- The stroke should be smooth and even; anything in the nature of a jerk or stab will result in disaster. The rigidity of the body being insisted upon, it follows that the work must be mainly done ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Some Difficult Strokes
- The course of the golfer, like that of the lover, is not always unruffled; misfortunes come to both the just and the unjust. Be the Fates ever so kind and the player ever so good, he is often ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Some Difficult Strokes. Part 2
- 3. The Stymie.Reference to Rule 16 will show that only in the rare circumstance of a less space than six inches intervening between the two balls is the player saved from being the victim ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Fighting The Wind
- The wind one morning sprang up from sleep, Saying,' Now for a frolic, now for a leap; Now for a madcap galloping chase, I'll make a commotion in every place.' The composer of ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Practice
- It cannot be emphasised too strongly that practice is the one thing needful for the degree of mechanical precision and good judgment in the game that will bring success and pleasure to the player. ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Match And Medal Play
- But, if you fall from your high estate, the safest plan will be to confide in the pro-fessional whose practised eye will detect the fault and modestly discover to yourself that of yourself ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Match And Medal Play. Part 2
- The reader is now in a position to be introduced to that excellent golferColonel Bogey, a much more amiable gentleman than his name would seem to imply. He is always available for a game ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Handicaps And Tournaments
- It ought to be obvious, even to the uninitiated, that matches, whether of the officially-conducted, comprehensive type, or of the ordinary friendly every-day sort, would be deprived of the ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Ladies On The Links
- Time was when Woman, more tyrannous than Man, hedged her sex round with a thick-set barrier of modesty, and fixed a limit to her associations with man and his diversions. So our grandmothers and ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Links In The Making
- It is usual, in the formation of a golf club, to invite the services of some well-known professional to advise as to the laying out of the course. It need scarcely be said that this is always a ...
- The Way To Play Golf: Things To Remember
- DON'T forget any of these essentials to successful play: Keep your eye on the ball. Beware of high tees. Avoid too much back-swing. Slow ...
- The Rules Of Golf
- (As revised by the Rules of Golf Committee, 1907) 1. Definitions: (a) The Game of Golf is played by two sides, each playing its own ball. A side consists either of one or ...
- The Rules Of Golf. Part 2
- 11. Before striking at a ball in play, the player shall not move, bend, nor break anything fixed or growing near the ball, except in the act of placing his feet on the ground for the purpose of ...
- The Rules Of Golf. Part 3
- 21. Holing Out.- Either side is entitled to have the flag-stick removed when approaching the hole, but if a player's ball strike the flag-stick which has been so removed by himself, or ...
- Special Rules For Golf Stroke Competitions
- 1. In stroke competitions, the competitor who holes the stipulated course in fewest strokes shall be the winner. 2. If the lowest scores be made by two or more ...
- Rules For Three-Ball Matches
- In matches in which three players play against each other, each playing his own ball (hereinafter referred to as a three-ball match), or in which one player plays his own ball against ...
- Etiquette Of Golf
- The following customs belong to the established rules of Etiquette, and, although not authorised under the present code, should be strictly observed by all Golfers. 1. A single ...
- T. Werner Laurie's New Books
- CLIFFORD'S INN, FLEET STREET, LONDON A Detailed Prospectus sent on Application The Burlesque Napoleon. Being the Story of the Life and Kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, ...
- T. Werner Laurie's New Books. Part 2
- The Cathedral Series. The Cathedrals of Northern France. By Francis Miltoun. With 80 illustrations from original drawings, and many minor decorations, by Blanche M'Manus. 1 vol., decorative cover,...
- Some [Golf] Reflection of a Kadi.
- Half a hole is better than no win. Happy is the golfer that hath his bag full of good clubs and balls. Take care of your weak clubs; the others will take care of themselves. ...
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