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The Golf Courses of the British Isles

Bernard Darwin

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. . .nd the second shot is a good one too, though by no means so long as it used to be, with a gutty. After this tenth comes another capital ‘two-shotter,’ which has been made by the expedient of running two poorish holes into one, and in this case two blacks have emphatically made a white, for the second shot over another pit, only a little less disastrous than the first, is excellent.

There are several more long, slashing holes on the way back, and at one of them I recollect that our adversaries in this same adventurous foursome lost their ball within four yards of the tee, and, in spite of the most arduous and unremitting search, had to give up the hole. I must add that the drive was neither a high nor a straight one, and that the grass at the edge of the course, or as I once heard an Irish green-keeper call them, the ‘sidings,’ were distinctly long.

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The best stuff you can read about the golf courses of the British Isles. This is a collection of Bernard Darwin’s (Charles’ grandson, golf writer for a London newspaper) writings on these courses. He was on the ground watching the first Open Championships and wrote on each match.
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