As he truly says, "In this case it would obviously be fatal to putt straight at the hole.
And instead of settling on a point half-way along the line of the putt as the highest that the ball shall reach, this summit of the ascent will now be very much nearer the hole, quite close to it in fact.
When a man putts in this way he is putting largely by instinct, and even though he may generally putt well, his work on the greens cannot be thoroughly reliable.
A long putt can never be run down except by a fluke when the ball has not been hit truly, however exactly all the calculations of line and strength have been made.
He says: And yet it is none the less true that to putt perfectly should be the acme of one's ambition.
It is easy enough to cut the ball, but it is most difficult, at first at all events, to cut it and putt it properly at the same time.
It may be allowed to pass for holing-out purposes; but for a putt of any length it cannot be good, for the club is not swung in the ordinary easy manner by which distance can be so accurately gauged.
And great golf he did play, with his ripping passionate shots, but a thirty-foot putt on the home green beat him.
T is yourself has the grand eye for the hard putt on the tricky green!
Sure, if the good Queen herself was to order me to putt on such things, I'd take off me bonnet an' plaid in excuse that I'd be kilt entirely if she held me to it.
Now, Polly, go putt your doll to bed, and don't criticise your father.
Won the Duffers' Cup at Bombay by conceding a twenty-foot putt on the sixteenth green.
He was just as noisy on the course as he was in the locker room, and when he missed his putt on the eighteenth green the fellows who were driving off at No.
He went about the sinking of that five-foot putt with as much deliberation as if his thousand dollars depended on it.
The general impression prevailed that conceding a six-foot putt at the outset of an important match was nothing short of emotional insanity.
Waddles still had a difficult putt to halve the hole, but while he was studying the roll of the green the Major spoke up.
I won it with a frightful eight, getting into all sorts of grief along the way, but Wally was entirely up in the air and blew the short putt which should have given him a half.
I never watched him jab at a putt without feeling certain that the ball was hit too hard to stay in the hole; but stay it does.
Every golfer who ever conceded himself a two-foot putt because he was afraid he might miss it has sweated and suffered and blasphemed in the wake of a slow foursome.
I'll admit that he out-generalled me by giving me that putton the second hole, but the thing that finally grabbed my angora was his infernal concentration.
Miss Jones drives, and it is up to Mr. Brown to play the next shot from where the ball lies, after which Miss Jones takes another pop at the pill, and so on until the putt sinks.
Old Fitz used to say, 'Give a man a hard putt and he'll miss an easy one.
Bill glared at Davidson for an instant, and his mouth opened, but he swallowed whatever impulse was troubling him, and carefully laid his ball on the lip of the cup for a two-inch putt that not even Beth could have missed.
If he could sink his putt and Small should miss his, the match would be square again.
Smathers' third shot also reached the green; but his long putt went wide and Elder tapped the ball into the cup, adding a second victory to our credit.
I'm used to grass, and I can't putt on anything else.
Among the whales you may very well putt in the spermacetus [see Note 51] or that remarkably peculiar whale which so aboundeth in spermaceti.
I thought to have mentioned I am bold to giue you this trouble so soone agayne haue you putt in a sea fish calld a bleak [see Note 74] a fish like an herring often taken with us and eat butt a more lanck & thinne & drye fish.
They are almost all cocks & putt together fight & destroy each other.
I kept in water 3 moneths if a few drops of blood were putt to the water they would in a litle time looke red.
See that this be putt in execution without feud or favour, else you may expect to be treated as not true to the king's government, nor a man fitt to carry a commission in the king's service.
Anderson is one of those who putt the rope upon Captain Porteus's neck.
Nor, indeed, was it easy to trust any of the acquaintances of so low, obscure a fellow with the secret of the warrand to be putt in execution.
And these were all the prisoners who were putt under confinement in that place.
I hooked my drive off the tee and down a little gully to the left, put a good iron shot into a bunker on the right, and than ran down a hundred-yard putt with a niblick for a three.
Henry, who had reached the green with his drive and had taken one putttoo many, halved the hole in four.
I've 'ad no school to go to nor nobody to putt me there.
We burned him with all speed, that he might not languish long, to putt ourselves in safty.
Neverthelesse we told them when they received a breake their guns would be to no purpose; therefore to putt them by and make use of their bows and arrows.
I putt some eggs in that sand, and leave them halfe an houre; the eggs weare as hard as stones.
Some 30 leagues from this place we killed wild cowes & then gott ourselves into cottages, where we heard some guns goe off, which made us putt out our fires & imbark ourselves with all speed.
This good man putt himselfe into a sweate through the earnest discours.
They putt a redd coale of fire uppon it, and when it is swolen bite it out with their teeth.
Soone after the wind began to blow harder, made us soone strike sayle, and putt our armes to worke.
We trust them by force to putt their first designe in Execution, but feared their lives and loved the porcelaine, seeing they had it without danger of any life.
That summer I went a hunting, & my brother stayed where he was welcome & putt up a great deale of Indian corne that was given him.
We putt a great many rind about our fort, and broake all the boats that we could have, for the frost would have broaken them or wild men had stolen them away.
And her eyes, afore she shut 'em, Whispered with a smile and said We must pick a bunch and putt 'em In her hand when she wuz dead.
Putt their arms around him-- on'y None had ever kissed him yet!
All these is reasons why I putt Sich bulk o' faith in Terry Hut.
Sometimes I slice as if I were cutting bread and can't putt to hit a haystack.
Of deeper interest was the act appointing a committee to make a digest of the laws, "that they may be putt in print.
Proud lookes, and lofty eyliddes, here putt on 20 Your selues in your vnfaign'd reflexion; Here, gallant ladyes!
Twas for such sorry merchandise, Bold painters haue putt out his eyes.
But his abettors haue putt it here rather to infame, then that they can think it true, as by the ensueing answeare appeares.
Andover, before I was putt to school, so yt my schooling was more chargeable.
Should he putt and miss the act is irrevocable; the stroke and the hole, or the half of it, are lost, and nothing that can happen afterwards can remove that loss.
Some of the very best putters do not play with the open stance, but putt entirely from the left leg, that leg thrown forward and in front and bearing all the weight, the right being merely hanging on behind.
Do not tell me that in the throes of a six-feet putt that shall win or lose a day a man thinks of his trusting country and not of his tortured hopeful self.
Thus he was left to get the home hole in 4 to tie, and by holing a five-feet putt with not a second's hesitation, just as if everything in golf had not seemed to depend upon it, he tied.
And again, how exactly is the effect of the winning putt on the defeated man like that of the knock-out blow.
But there they show their deficiencies of knowledge, though one is not sure that all the men who putt with a low grip quite know why they do so.
He played it with good judgment always, and this time, on the green with his second, he holed a nine-yards putt for a 3.
Mid-Surrey one pleasant day, and Sir Archibald was trying his last putt over again as golfers often do.
Then I am in a state of panic, and I snatch at my putter and hit the ball quickly so that with a little luck it may reach the hole before it goes away altogether and there is nothing to putt at.
Tens of thousands of others could not putt in this way, but those who can are very successful, and this is just another indication of the danger of dogma in golf.
Mr. Ouimet, by boldness, might have gained two strokes here, but he was a trifle short with his putt and was satisfied with a profit of one.
It may often happen that it would pay better to be four yards past the hole than two short of it, for you will not only have had the chance of holing, but the putt back may be an uphill one.
During the championship at Apawamis, when he was playing Mr. Hilton, he had what everybody declared to be an impossible putt of twenty feet, downhill over a billowy green, and he holed it because he had practised the same sort of putt before.
She came within inches of going down in three, and I then missed a long putt and lost the hole outright, she not needing the stroke handicap.
Illustration: "It makes an ideal hazard"] After carefully studying my putt I holed out from twenty yards, making the hole in three after practically throwing my first shot away.
Wallace had the worst of a bad kick, and Kirkaldy holed a thirty-foot putt for a par four, making him two up.
Nothing happened on the first extra hole, but on the following I held a fifteen puttfor a three and won a beautifully contested match.
Both were nicely on the green in two, and Wallace missed a putt for a three by a hair, while his opponent was lucky, running down in a long lag for four, halving it in bogy.
His approach putt was too strong, overrunning the cup by twelve feet.
Just then I discovered the ball, and after two strokes Wilson got it out of trouble, and then by a lucky approach and putt won the hole.
The Cassekey's Wife looking at my Child and having her own Child in her lapp, putt it away to another Woman, and rose upp and would not bee denied, but would have my Child.
At this the Cornish maiden broke into a rage of honesty: 'A putt the money by for 'ee.
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