To get on in golf, be thoughtful. Try to discover what your errors are and when you make a good stroke think how you did it.

Grasp the leather lower down when your clubs run away with you as this helps the leverage and makes them less unwieldy to tired wrists.

Do not study detail enough to lose freedom of action or be so scientific as to lose all dash.

No stroke stands by itself. Each must be considered in reference to the next.

Too constant practice in any game develops only a certain set of muscles and these begin to lose their vigor when called too frequently into use and one becomes stale.

The better one lives, the better are the chances of success, as a healthy body makes a healthy mind.

Take a light lunch rather than a heavy one before the match, as a heavy lunch not only deadens the activity of the mind but is apt to affect the eye.

As there is no game in which the mental strain is as great as in golf, do not play too many matches and in this way use up too much mental energy.

Remember that the one who first settles down to serious business will have just so much advantage over his adversary. Concentrated purpose lies at the bottom of success.

Remember that the most important part of the game is the first few holes, as most golfers become depressed by being two or three holes down and lose that confidence necessary for the proper execution of every stroke.

Remember that "sure things" are less frequently to be found in golf than in any other game ; that the game is never lost until it is won and that dogged pluck generally wins it.

Never give an opponent a chance to win a hole through carelessness on your part and, however easy the match may seem , always play your best. You should not only want to win, but to win so easily that only a little of your store of energy will be used up. Do not, therefore, allow a weak opponent to bring a match to such a close finish that it necessitates any waste of energy.

Remember to keep in mind that your adversary does not beat you as much as you beat yourself; that it is the mistakes which he makes rather than the good shots which you make which decide the match. Play your own game, therefore, without thinking of his game and trust to his mistakes for your victory. By watching his play, his good strokes are apt to have a demoralizing effect on your strokes and his bad strokes are apt to bring about such a feeling of over-confidence that it makes one careless. Bear in mind that you are to do nothing heroic ; that, if you keep on playing without mistakes, you can confidently count on his making enough to decide the match. Let your opponent's mistakes come first and the business is over and the match won.

It is a mistake to use extreme caution as one always cramps himself by an excess of care. It is for this reason that, when playing carelessly, one generally holes his short putts with far greater accuracy than when there is the strain of an important match.

Assume a freedom of manner, even if it belies your feelings. In time you will overcome the bugbear and can play with courage as well as with indifference.

In practice accustom yourself to playing quickly and freely. Accustom yourself also to playing slowly, so that in an important match you can add caution to your game without its being unnatural.

In a tournament, watch the play of some of the others before you start. By seeing their errors your blood will get the right golling circulation.

When practising use that club which gives you the most trouble and do not spend your time in knocking a ball about with the club which gives you the most satisfaction.