The Dubuque-California foursome was grouped at a table in a corner.
The theory of the mixed foursome is to leave your partner with a chance to hit the ball.
Waddles' mixed-foursome tournament was scheduled for a Thursday, and it was amazing how many of the male members discovered that imperative business engagements would keep them from participating in the contest.
To save time, I will admit that your foursome is slower than Congress and more irritating than the Senate.
While Mary and Russell were discussing the theory of the mixed foursome old Bill made a terrific mashie shot out of the grass, and the ball reached the edge of the green.
For instance, we have a bankers' foursome, an insurancefoursome and a wholesale-grocery foursome, and the players talk shop between holes.
And then those two old sharks insisted on a foursomebet as well.
Permit me to ask you one question: Going back over the years, can you recall a single instance when your slow foursome allowed you to play through?
They never do," said I, and just then the foursome moved off the putting green.
Yes, it sounds like an innocent pastime, but of all forms of golf the mixed foursome carries the highest percentage of danger and explosive material.
Beth Rogers was in the foursome too, but she doesn't really count, not being in love with any one but herself.
When our foursome appeared on the first tee there was quite a ripple of subdued excitement.
Make a foursome if you like, with Kitty and the blue-eyed mutt.
They showed a few milk-fed Springers how to take a Joke, and then played an 18-hole Foursome which was more or less of a Grewsome.
Six years after he gave up the Business Career and consecrated himself to something more Important, Mr. Pallzey had so well mastered the baffling Intricacies that he was allowed to trail in a Foursome with the President of the Club.
You're up, Thomas," I said when the crack foursome was out of range.
I can take Thomas out alone and beat him so badly he will not dare turn in his score, but in a mixed foursome he can put it all over me.
We are planning a foursome and Miss Dangerfield has chosen you for her partner," began Thomas, who knows exactly how I feel about such matters and who delights to lure me into trouble.
Thomas is the only good player in the club who is willing to make up a foursome with women, or, as it is most properly called, a "mixed foursome.
I know of no agony more acute than to be condemned to play golf with women when there is a chance to get in a foursome with good scratch men.
That is so modest a request that I grant it," she said, and ten minutes later I had the satisfaction of hearing her decline Carter's invitation to join in a foursome in which I was to take no part.
Well, suppose we go to the hotel, get a bite to eat and then go out and play that foursome with old Tom Morris and Carter," he pleaded.
Have you forgotten, Smith, that you have an engagement to play a foursome with old Tom Morris, Carter and myself this afternoon?
They did it almost automatically, for they had come to look upon Fil somewhat in the light of a big doll, the exclusive property of "The Foursome League," and to be treated as the mascot of the dormitory.
The Foursome League had not yet earned distinction, chiefly owing to lapses on the part of Fil, and Nora's incorrigible love of talking in season and out of season.
After all, a foursome has to give way for a twosome.
And the next time I play a foursome I will undertake to surprise certain persons whose names I do not care to mention.
This makes it very desirable that the partners in a foursome match to which any importance is attached, should have more than a passing knowledge of each other's play, and of individual weaknesses and excellences.
It is good to be guided by mutual preferences, for preference means confidence, and that is everything in foursome play.
To my mind the old foursome provided a much more interesting and enjoyable game than its successor, and tended much more to the cultivation of good qualities in a golfer.
Let each man play the various strokes that have to be made in a foursome in his own way without interference, for nothing but chaos and a lost match can follow upon the enforcement upon each other of individual ideas and methods.
The best foursome of all is one played on level terms, and an effort should always be made, and even a point strained here and there, to effect such partnerships as will make this arrangement feasible.
One feels in a foursome that one must be so very careful, and take so much extra pains, and when that feeling is uppermost in the mind while the stroke is being made, the result is often disastrous.
When a short-handicap man is mated with a long one, the place of the latter in a foursome of the new kind is to my thinking not worth having.
The possibility of a foursome was considered, and a question was asked as to what kind of a player the Captain was, his partner replying, "Oh, he is excellent.
Here dwells Willy Fernie, and here it was that Braid and Herd went down so memorably before Vardon and Taylor in the great foursome over four greens.
The foursome was played in very leisurely fashion.
His gaze, passing from the lemonade which he is sucking through a straw, rests upon the Saturday foursome which is struggling raggedly up the hill to the ninth green.
The King and the Grand Vizier were playing a foursome against the Pro and the High Priest of Hec, and the Vizier had just laid the High Priest a dead stymie.
And then when Rowland Jones is included in one of these foursome combinations, we say, quite pleased, "Ha, Jones is coming on!
That was why everybody found it such a delight to play with him, and why he and old Tom, who had also a fine temperament, were as a foursome pair just as strong and invincible as men could be imagined to be.
IV Once a year there is a great foursomeplayed between a Colonel and a Parson on the one side and an Author and an M.
A greatfoursome is being played, and there is L400 at issue.
See how pretty is the combination of this foursome pair, and how they do play each the game to suit the other, thus: "His partner then with his putter tapped the ball off A's putter and it fell into the hole.
You see, it was the last day of our stay in Florida; our last foursome of the season.
Dowd goes on to tell how reg'lar the old foursome got under way every afternoon at 2:30.
Never had any one in our foursome played such golf as I did for nine consecutive holes.
I am but a simple duffer; I am quite prepared to state That my lowest round on record was a paltry 88; That my partner in a foursome needs the patience of a Job, That in moments of excitement I am apt to miss the globe.
I think it was with me as partner that Arthur Balfour first played that foursome against De Zoete, and Penn, which afterwards, with Johnny Laidlay taking my place, was played times without number.
With all respect in the world for the foursome as a very pleasant pastime, I cannot believe in it as anything like the test of golf that a single provides.
I can only say that for my own part it has always been easier for me to play well in a foursome than in a single.
I had even enjoyed the honour of playing a foursome at Westward Ho!
Armed with these new weapons I prepared to go out to Biarritz, where the annual foursome match against Pau was just impending.
Then Lord Kilmaine gave that Cup for foursome match competition between Biarritz and Pau, which has been the occasion of grand fun every year since.
To her inflamed imagination he behaved as if she was under a Taboo, but she was desperate, and had pledged him and his friend to a foursome before the meal was over.
And so with the gravest apprehensions, and an insincere compliment to their father's energy, Daffy and Marjorie made up a foursome for that healthy and invigorating game.
