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He might, indeed, in a most heroic spirit, place a bunker at a point which he knew would be more than usually dangerous for him, and he would feel a better and a braver man for this act; but a hundred of its kind would not prevent the course from being the ideal of the long-handicap man and not the ideal of the fine player.
The four-ball foursome Its inferiority to the old-fashioned game The case of the long-handicap man Confusion on the greens The man who drives last The old-fashioned two-ball foursome Against too many foursomes Partners and each other Fitting in their different games The man to oblige The policy of the long-handicap partner How he drove and missed in the good old days On laying your partner a stymie A preliminary consideration of the round Handicapping in foursomes A too delicate reckoning of strokes given and received A good foursome and the excitement thereof A caddie killed and a hole lost A compliment to a golfer.
And so, perfectly happy in our present badness and perfectly confident of our future goodness, we long-handicap men remain. Perhaps it would be pleasanter to be a little more certain of getting the ball safely off the first tee; perhaps at the fourteenth hole, where there is a right of way and the public encroach, we should like to feel that we have done with topping; perhaps
Necessity for thought and ingenuity The long-handicap man's course The scratch player's How good courses are made The necessary land A long nine-hole course better than a short eighteen The preliminary survey A patient study of possibilities Stakes at the holes Removal of natural disadvantages "Penny wise and pound foolish" The selection of teeing grounds A few trial drives The arrangement of long and short holes The best two-shot and three-shot holes Bunkers and where to place them The class of player to cater for The shots to be punished Bunkers down the sides The best putting greens Two tees to each hole Seaside courses.
For example, it frequently happens that a long-handicap man is a very good driver indeed, better in fact than the man who is his partner and has a handicap of many strokes less. And in the same way it commonly occurs that a short-handicap man may be decidedly weak with his short approaches.
As the former has never been a short handicap man he is evidently not qualified to judge. The scratch man, who has been through it all, would never change his scratch play for that of his old long-handicap days at least I have never yet met the scratch man who would.
The long drive, as I say, is not everything; but to play well it is as necessary to make a good drive as to hole a short putt, or nearly so, and from the golfer who does not drive well a most marvellous excellence is required in the short game if he is to hold his own in good company, or ever be anything more than a long-handicap man.
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