A man once said that if he saw the caddies beforehand he could tell what kind of golf was played in a place, and though this may have been going too far, there was a germ of truth in the idea.
But the caddies at Deal and Sandwich nowadays are excellent, and this is not such an unimportant matter as some people might imagine it to be.
Mediocre links and mediocre players never produce good caddies, and the reverse argument generally holds good; and everybody knows that a good race of caddies is not to be produced in a couple of seasons.
In those days of the use of the brassey, when a Blackheath golfer appeared on a Scottish course, the caddies knew his headquarters at once.
And yet another attribute of the large and important golfing centre does this neighbourhood possess, in the good quality of the caddies which in the course of many seasons it has at last developed.
All he asks of a ball is "one crack at it," and the caddies were reaping a harvest.
It is a long carry and beyond probability that he can accomplish it, but I have seen him drive box after box of balls and give them to the caddies who have recovered them.
On one particular green there were eight bodies stretched where a foursome with its caddies had held to their game to the last.
Between there and the ninth hole numerous caddies appeared from behind trees and bunkers and offered me balls at ridiculously low prices, and I, quite naturally, took advantage of their offers.
I never make a large score there, as it is near the club house and the caddies are afraid of the Board of Governors.
As my game has improved I have acquired such dexterity that I can buy balls from the caddies at the rate of four for twenty-five cents.
To dispel the disorder, a selection of one of the caddies would be made, and then all was quiet again until another customer appeared.
Horne explained that unlimited caddies were easier to get than unlimited golf balls.
Our caddieswere grinning youngsters a good deal like the Gold Dust Twins.
They were fitted with two and sometimes three bottles or tea-pays of silver or Battersea enamel, to hold the black and green teas, and when really good examples of these daintily-fitted tea caddies are offered for sale, they bring large sums.
On second thoughts I don't believe the Greens Committee let the wretched caddies get any of the loot.
The caddies on our links, it was said, could always worst other small boys in verbal argument by calling them some of the things they had heard Mitchell call his ball on discovering it in a cuppy lie.
Now, if you'll elect who's to be caddies an' umpire I'll be powerful obliged.
Caddies may coach, and perhaps expert advice is all that is necessary for your team to defeat Monty's.
You recollect also how they all wanted to see you an' your brother play, an' be caddies for you?
My sister, and friends, and I will take turns ascaddies for your team.
The caddies had recovered the scattered equipment of the players, and were following, discussing the incidents of the busiest quarter of an hour they had known in their golfing experience.
In addition to the regular corps of caddies there was an irregular body of younger depredators who had no official position, and earned a precarious livelihood by stealing or retrieving balls.
They stand ranged with their caddies in front of a bunker and a turf wall most curiously and artistically castellated, while behind is a motley gathering of local spectators arrayed in bowler hats.
And out of the ranks of the Biarritz caddies came other good and great players, such as Gassiat and that Dauge of whom Braid declares that he can drive a ball to carry as far as his (Braid's) ball will go with run and all.
From there we went to Guernsey, where the caddies were certainly anything but stupid.
I made offerings of tea caddies and chimney-piece ornaments, and she kissed my hand.
The best caddies had been selected, clubs had been looked to with care and tested, new balls were got out, and there was much subdued excitement, as befitted the occasion.
We young caddies were very eager to learn the game thoroughly, and we were in the habit of watching these golfers very closely, comparing their styles, and then copying anything from them that seemed to take our fancy.
If a player's ball strike, or be stopped by himself or his partner, or either of their caddies or clubs, his side shall lose the hole.
In a best ball match, if a player's ball (the player being one of a side) strike or be stopped by himself or his partner or either of their caddies or clubs, that player only shall be disqualified for that hole.
This great statesman-golfer relates another anecdote showing that caddies are much the same the whole world over.
These caddies are a rarer species than the others.
Some golfers might be flattered when they come to know that their caddieshave backed them to the extent of half the remuneration they will receive for carrying the clubs for the round.
Caddies have been known, when their employers have been in doubt as to exactly how many strokes they have played at certain holes, to give an emphatic, but none the less untruthful declaration, on the side of fewness.
On a busy day all the regularcaddies had been engaged, and the fishermen were drafted into the club-carrying service.
To this end, it is reported, an entrance examination paper is in course of preparation, in which individuals aspiring to official recognition as caddies will be required to obtain a percentage of at least eighty marks.
Show 'em from the fust as you'll stand no nonsense," is allus my words when the yunger caddies gathers ararn me fer hadvice.
No tee without a caddie--then The caddies will acclaim!
A suggestion for caddies of tender age in attendance on hot-tempered Anglo-Indian military gentlemen learning golf.
I thort to meself, komplasent like, as 'ow some of these lidy members might show a prefferrence fer that one of ourcaddies as is pollished and korteous and older than 'is years.
Reported death of a green-keeper, lost in trying to rescue two caddies from the bunker going to the 11th hole.
So Caddies calmly tread In Mire the Ball Heav'n sent them here to seek.
The caddies know that you are a golfer and what is your handicap; and if you are the real thing that is enough for them.
Caddies are paid "from the time of their employment until the time they are discharged, to be determined by an electric clock, at such rate per hour as may be determined by the Green Committee.
The ways and manners and the character of the St. Andrews and Musselburgh caddies are inferior.
Chinese caddiesdo not understand the game and think that the foreign devils who play it are surely mad.
The girl caddies there are the best of their kind.
He was getting caddiesfor us, as he explained there would be none otherwise.
For a time whenever he went to play a match he had three caddies attending on him; even now he generally has two.
Deschamps is a fine humanitarian, and exerts himself constantly for the welfare of the caddies, who are as good for their business as any caddies in the world.
The class of human beings known as caddies are the offspring of golf, and have peculiar traits which distinguish them from the professional cricketer, the waterman, the keeper, the gillie, and all other professionals.
And yet golf is a sport not learned in a day, and caddies might be more considerate.
Such were the charming little tea-caddies with brass handles and locks, stands for candles, or china jars or animals with which the drawing-rooms of those days were crowded.
Flowers of History, Philosophy, and Mendacity Culled by Caddies to the Muse Whose Metrical Feet Have Wandered Into the Debatable Territory That Lies Between Fiction and Fact.
Men four behind have been, on the return, So favoured by Olympus, or by care, That all their terrors vanished into air, And caddies cried them dormy at the burn!
All unaware of the trend of events, unaware of the laws that were closing in upon all the Brethren, unaware indeed that there lived a Brother for him on the earth, young Caddies chose this time to come out of his chalk pit and see the world.
It was in the morning of the day when young Caddies died, and when the policeman tried to stop young Redwood on his way to the Princess.
The wandering of Caddies about London came to a head on the second day in the morning.
At firstCaddies did not understand the import of these attentions.
At the sight of the guns, youngCaddies blazed into anger.
And over all this uproar young Caddies stared, perplexed, expectant, saying no more.
Amidst a hum of ten million such sayings young Caddies came to London.
I think of young Caddies always as he was seen in the New Kent Road, the sunset warm upon his perplexed and staring face.
The waiters talk, the steward gossips, the locker-room boys repeat conversations which they overhear, and the caddies are worse than magpies.
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