The Golf-book of East LothianJohn Kerr T. and A. Constable, Printers to the Queen and the University, 1896 - 516 sider |
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A. J. Balfour A. M. Ross Aberlady amateur Anderson Andrews annual Archerfield Bart Bass Rock Begbie Ben Sayers Bloxsom Brown bunker burgh caddie Campbell Captain Castle Club champion Championship clubhouse competition course Croall Dalrymple Dirleton Castle Dunbar Dunn Earl East Lothian East Lothian Club Edin Edinburgh feuars foursome gentlemen George gold medal Golf Club golf-course gowff green-keeper Gullane Gullane Club Haddington Hamilton Ogilvy hole Honourable Company Hugh Kirkaldy J. E. Laidlay J. R. Whitecross James Kinloch Kirkaldy ladies Leith Lord Luffness Club Lugton match meeting Messrs minutes Morris Muirfield Musselburgh North Berwick Club occasion old Tom Morris Photograph by Retlaws play players present Prestwick prizes professional putt putting-green Robert Hay round Royal and Ancient Sayers score Scotland secretary silver club Sir David Baird stroke Tait Tantallon Club Thorntree tournament town Wemyss Whitecross Willie Park winner
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Side 355 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Side 502 - ... out first, or of lifting his ball, if it be in such a position that it might, if left, give an advantage to the other competitor. Throughout the green a competitor can have the other competitor's ball lifted, if he find that it interferes with his stroke.
Side 48 - I was shown one particular set of golfers, the youngest of whom was turned of fourscore. They were all gentlemen of independent fortunes, who had amused themselves with this pastime for the best part of a century, without having ever felt the least alarm from sickness or disgust; and they never went to bed, without having each the best part of a gallon of claret in his belly.
Side 58 - Hurst. We accordingly set out in good time, six of us in a landau. As we passed through Kensington, the Coldstream regiment were changing guard, and, on seeing our clubs, they gave us three cheers in honour of a diversion peculiar to Scotland ; so much does the remembrance of one's native country dilate the heart, when one has been some time absent. The same sentiment made us open our purses, and give our countrymen wherewithal to drink the " Land o
Side 500 - ... 17. If any vessel, wheel-barrow, tool, roller, grass-cutter, box, or other similar obstruction has been placed upon the course, such obstruction may be removed. A ball lying on or touching such obstruction, or on clothes, or nets, or on ground under repair or temporarily covered up or opened, may be lifted and dropped at the nearest point of the course, but a ball lifted in a hazard shall be dropped in the hazard. A ball lying in a golf hole or flag hole, may be lifted and dropped not more than...
Side 500 - A player or a player's caddie shall not press down or remove any irregularities of surface near the ball, except at the Teeing Ground, under the penalty of the loss of the hole. 17. If any vessel, wheelbarrow, tool, roller, grass-cutter, box, or other similar obstruction has been placed upon the course, such obstruction may be removed. A ball lying on or touching such obstruction, or on clothes, or nets, or on ground...
Side 501 - Should any dispute arise on any point, the players have the right of determining the party or parties to whom the dispute shall be referred, but should they not agree, either party may refer it to the Green Committee of the green where the dispute occurs, and their decision shall be final. Should the dispute not be covered by the Rules of Golf, the arbiters must decide it by equity.
Side 500 - ... 24. If the player's ball strike, or be stopped by himself or his partner, or either of their caddies or clubs, or if, while in the act of playing, the player strike the ball twice, his side loses the hole.
Side 500 - ... (7) If a competitor's ball strike the other player, or his clubs or caddie, it is a 'rub of the green,' and the ball shall be played from where it lies.
Side 501 - The player or his caddie may remove (but not press down) sand, earth, worm casts or snow lying around the hole or on the line of his putt. This shall be done by brushing lightly with the hand only, across the putt and not along it. Dung may be removed...