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The mashie is meant to loft, and it is practically impossible to play a long shot with it without lofting the ball very much and exposing it to all the wind that there is about. As very little driving power has been imparted to the ball, what wind there may be has considerably more effect upon it than upon the flight of other balls played with other iron clubs.
Problems on undulating greens The value of practice Difficulties of calculation The cut stroke with the putter How to make it When it is useful Putting against a sideways slope A straighter line for the hole Putting down a hill Applying drag to the ball The use of the mashie on the putting green Stymies When they are negotiable and when not The wisdom of playing for a half Lofting over the stymie Running through the stymie How to play the stroke, and its advantages Fast greens for fancy strokes On gauging the speed of a green.
Again, on making a critical examination of these measurements, the golfer of a little experience will promptly ask why my mashie is an inch and a quarter longer than my iron. It is longer because one has sometimes to play high lofting shots over trees and the like, and in such cases the loft of the mashie is necessary and a considerable amount of power as well hence the extra stick.
He was a good fellow, untiring both at his sport and at his toil, and as skilful in lofting a ball with a stroke of his club as in putting together a cartwheel. Every one knows that the game of golf consists in driving towards a given point a ball of cherrywood with a club which has for head a sort of little iron shoe without a heel.
"It is very much better than I had expectation of doing," said Wallace. "That is a well-balanced club of yours, Mr. Smith, but a bit too short and whippy for me." He good-naturedly consented to try lofting and approaching shots. On the start he was a little unsteady, due probably to lack of familiarity with my clubs, which are made to conform with some of my pet hobbies.
"Upstairs" was the triangular space between the roof and the ceiling of the ground floor. At each end was a tiny window, and the whole, windows included, had been divided longitudinally by a single thickness of hand-sawn lumber, up to the tiny cross-beams. There was no lofting, and both windows were open, so that a cool breeze was blowing right through.
Archibald was on the floor of his bedroom one afternoon, picking up the fragments of his mirror a friend had advised him to practise the Walter J. Travis lofting shot when the telephone bell rang. He took up the receiver, and was hailed by the comfortable voice of McCay, the club secretary. 'Is that Mealing? asked McCay. 'Say, Archie, I'm putting your name down for our championship competition.
He studied it a moment intently. It was a villainous lie. I did not wish to give advice, but could not restrain myself. "Better play safe," I said. "It will cost you only one stroke." "I think I can take it out," he said, reaching in the bag for a heavy, old-fashioned lofting iron.
Whipple meanwhile had redeemed himself with a high lofting stroke that carried past the threatening dangers of Masters Bunker and back on to the course within a few yards of West's lie. But again skill on the putting green was wanting, and he required two strokes to make the hole. Once more the honor was West's, and that youth turned toward home with a short and high stroke.
The fact of the matter is, that this shot is really a combination of lofting and putting with many more uncertain quantities to be dealt with than when one is really putting on the green. When one has decided where the pitch must be, the utmost pains should be taken to pitch there exactly, which, as the distance will usually be trifling, ought not to be a difficult matter.
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