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The great advantage of good approach play A fascinating club Characteristics of a good mashie Different kinds of strokes with it No purely wrist shot Stance and grip Position of the body No pivoting on the left toe The limit of distance Avoid a full swing The half iron as against the full mashie The swing How not to loft On scooping the ball Taking a divot The running-up approach A very valuable stroke The club to use A tight grip with the right hand Peculiarities of the swing The calculation of pitch and run The application of cut and spin A stroke that is sometimes necessary Standing for a cut Method of swinging and hitting the ball The chip on to the green Points of the jigger.
"I did," answered Alec; "and I will do yours the same guid turn, gin he worries bairns." "And quite richt, too!" said the sutor's wife. "Lat him gang, Donal. I'll be boun' he's no ane o' them." "Tell's a' aboot it, than. Hoo cam ye up there?" "I gaed up to tak the divot aff o' Lucky Lapp's lum. Spier at her. Ance up I thocht I micht gie the lave o' ye a gude turn, and this is a' I get for't."
He was not often the last in a conspiracy. His arrival had for the moment a sedative effect. "Here's Curly! Here's Curly!" "Weel, is't a' sattled?" asked he. "She's condemned, but no execute yet," said Grumpie. "Hoo are we to win at her?" asked Cadger. "That's jist the pint," said Divot. "We canna weel kill her in her ain yard," suggested Houghie. "Na.
And at various points within your line of vision are the third tee, the sixth tee, and the sinister bunkers about the eighth green none of them lacking in food for the reflective mind. It is on this terrace that the Oldest Member sits, watching the younger generation knocking at the divot.
Whereas the bad golfers and by bad I do not mean incompetent, but black-souled the men who fail to count a stroke when they miss the globe; the men who never replace a divot; the men who talk while their opponent is driving; and the men who let their angry passions rise these are in and out of Wormwood Scrubbs all the time.
The loons had been o' the riggin, and flung a han'fu' o' blastin' powther down ilka smokin' chimley, and syne clappit a divot or a truf upo' the mou' o' 't. Deil ane o' them was in sicht, but I doobt gin ony o' them was far awa'. There was naething for't but get a ladder, and jist gang up an' tak aff the pot-lids. But eh! puir Robert was jist rampin' wi' rage!
"Yon divot 'at ye flang aff o' Luckie Lapp's riggin'," said Curly, "cam' richt o' the back o' my heid, as I lay o' the brae, and dang the blude oot at my niz. That's a'. Ye'll preten' ye didna see me, nae doobt." "I say, Curly," said Alec, putting his arm round his shoulders, and leading him aside, "we maun hae nae mair o' this kin' o' wark. It's a dam't shame!
As soon as he was fairly seated, Alec said in a low voice across the double desk to one of the boys opposite, calling him by his nickname, "I say, Divot, do ye ken Juno?" "Maybe no!" answered Divot. "But gin I dinna, my left leg dis." "I thocht ye kent the shape o' her teeth, man. Jist gie Scrumpie there a dig i' the ribs." "What are ye efter, Divot?
Well, well, the young boys would be tormenting the old lady they would be lighting green branches in the fire in her sleeping-place, to smeek her out, not meaning any ill, but just for a ploy, and to see her lindging at them with the stick from her bed, and craking and raging at them time about, to be taking the divot off the top of the lum.
"Bide a wee bide a wee; you southrons are aye in sic a hurry, and this is something concerns yourself, an ye wad tak patience to hear't Yill? deil a drap o' yill did Pate offer me; but Mattie gae us baith a drap skimmed milk, and ane o' her thick ait jannocks, that was as wat and raw as a divot. O for the bonnie girdle cakes o' the north! and sae we sat doun and took out our clavers."
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