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Official Bulletin U.S.G.A. BOTH SIDES of a 90 HOLE Rf) HASKELL-MATCH GOLF BALL L NEW YORK MARCH 19O! 'cester, m m •;f¥, •--'••-•I ) -mm/- )0, Vfii) •lishes Jjil 'Price 25 ear OS, Deovff. rtOUt Official Bulletin U.S.G.A. BOTH SIDES OF A 90 HOLE rf) HASKELL-MATCH GOLF BALL l Exact Photograph Showing Both Sides of Ball Mentioned in Letter Printed Below. Photograph Not Retouched. A Letter of Interest to Every Golfer in the United States. THE B. F. GOODRICH CO., DETROIT BRANCH. November 10th, 1906. GENTLEMEN:— I return to you by one of my messengers a "HASKELL MATCH" ball with something of a history. I am free to confess that superstition and that alone caused me to so abuse this, once "white pill." It was new when I started out to try and qualify in the DETROIT GOLF CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP, 13 holes. I did very well with it qualifying first, so concluded to use it again in my first match turning in a 79. Used it again in my 2nd match getting the record for the course in competition with a 77. Needless to state that by this time I commenced to credit some of my good play, especially on the "greens" to the ball and concluded to stick to it through the 36 holes finals, which I did, winning the CHAMPIONSHIP 8 up 7 to play. THIS makes a grand total for this ball of 90 holes and I consider it good for 90 more. I consider it as good as the very best off the wooden clubs as good as you need off the irons and the superior of any ball made on the "greens." Sincerel)' yours. And this particular ball differs not one iota in construction from any one of the thousands daily turned out from the Goodrich factory. Every Haskell Golf Ball is a responsive ball, it mates with your best efforts, and from the view point of durability, it bows to none. Ninty holes of play—championship winning play—and not a crack, break or dent, and the ball still a perfect sphere, is a remarkable showing and yet any Haskell is capable of doing equally as well. THE B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO. 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It includes matters of dress, training and links for women, and furthermore is so prepared as to be a guide for the beginner and a com- plete manual of instruction for the more advanced player. Miss Adair's chapter will be found full of interest to every woman golfer. jV. r. Sun: " Direct and helpful, and her advice that of an expert who should be heeded. " N. Y. Post and The Nation: "No woman player, however skillful, can fail to profit by a careful study of it. Admirably illustrated. " The Reader Magazine: " Interesting and instructive, not only to beginners, but to old players as well." GOLF, 48 West 27th St., New York City iture ill! mm RKS :s t not only ca itL" MS* ON THE COURSE, COLUMBIA, S. C. EUGENE M CARTHY DRIVING i GOLF BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED J894 VOL. XX. MARCH, 1907 No. 3 LESSONS IN GOLF BY ALEX SMITH LESSON VI. GETTING OUT OF DIFFICULTIES In a former lesson I referred briefly to play through the green, where the ball is on a hanging lie or either above or below the player. I said then, and repeat it now, that the chief essentials are accuracy and an easy swing, but I ma}' add a word or two upon the proper stance and swing for these variations from the normal. When the ball is lying on an uphill slope, and consequently above you, the tendency is to hook it badly. It will help you to play straight if you stand a little farther from the ball than usual, swinging very easily. When the ball lies on a downhill slope, or beneath you, the tendency is both to slice and to fall forward as the club comes through. Stand well behind the ball and slightly turn down the nose of your club. The swing should not be more than a three-quarters one. When the ball is on a hanging or downward lie (in the direct line of play) the stroke should be well off the right foot. In other words, stand more in front of the ball than usual, the left knee very firm and the right one compara- tively loose. The grip, too, should be light, or you may poke the club into the ground. For all these shots I prefer a spoon, this last being a wooden club a trifle shorter than the driver and laid back like a brassey. It has no brass sole risirt*—i-v«r-r-t*~.Ar<Ti[UR POTTOW. All rights reserved. 134 LESSONS IN GOLF plate and is consequently a better balanced club than the ordinary brassey. Referring again to the push stroke, which is largely used when the ball is in a shallow cup or moder- your ately bad lie, the tendency is to stiffen the shoulders and STANCE FOR BALL LYING ABOVE YOU tighten up the grip. This is quite wrong. The grip should be decidedly slackened, so as to lake the jar off the wrists and permit the putting on of back spin. It is excellent practice to learn this strokrol e balls out of a shallo\v \ LESSONS IN GOLF 135 bunker in which the sand is loose and yielding. You will have no fears for the safety of the club shaft or injury to your wrists, and the stroke can be brought off in proper fashion. 1 , • , •- STANCE FOR BALI, LYING BELOW YOU When the ball lies in a deep rut there is nothing to do but to take your niblick and pound at it. It is generally /.-?ffiTvTs~ablei to folTowTlTeTtrt-. Indeed, the great principle of 135 LESSONS IN GOLF »tfcl all play out of bad lies is to get out. Make up your mind that you have lost one stroke and are only trying to place yourself in position for the next one. You have lost one stroke; don't lose two. • BALL IN A RUT In getting out of bunkers the older authorities advised hitting into the sand behind the hall, the distance being pro- portional to the looseness of the, sand. It is hardly worth '<i- LESSONS IN GOLF while bothering over such niceties ; take the sand as close to the ball as possible and let the grip be loose and flexible. Sometimes you will find the ball cocked up in a bunker, teed, as one may say. In such case it is advisable to stand PLAYING OUT OF A BUNKER well behind the ball so as to clearly catch it on the up swing as the club comes through. It is very easy to foozle even so"iifnple~S~SlTOt~Hs-thTs.appears to be by taking sand. Note LESSONS IN GOLF that this is exactly the reverse situation to the ordinary bunker play in which the ball lies in a heel point or is half buried. In playing out of long grass take the heaviest club in PLAYING OUT OF LONG GRASS your bag, preferably a mashie-niblick, and bang away. The stroke is more on the straight up and down order, for that you expect to do is to get bifck on the Fail ''Teen, LESSONS IN GOLF 139 and with the usual long sweep back the club has to fight its way through that much more obstruction. The wind is a difficulty that must always be reckoned with on a seaside course, and even the inland ones have their STANCE FOR WIND DEAD AGAINST PLAYER share of stormy weather. There arc scientific golfers who make much of their ability to use a wind, putting or slicing, •*as the" case may be, ancTthe theory is a plausible one. In LESSONS IN GOLF practice? Well, for the beginner, it is enough if he can hit cleanly and straight.
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