If only her ball could be found, though, Pip flattered himself that he could go on missing putts after Elsie had reached the green until she had pulled the match out of the fire.
Short putts she invariably holes out by an ingenious and unblushing push-stroke, which no one has the heart to question or the courage to criticise.
All putts of over three feet," remarked Pip, sententiously quoting one of his favourite golfing maxims, "are flukes.
This putts me in mind of the great and vast wildernesses of Turkey land, as the Turques makes their pylgrimages.
Shee putts her hands uppon my head & combs it downe with her fingers.
Here comes a wind and raine thatputts a new life in us.
One of the Iroquoits, thinking his boat would be seene, goes quickly and puttsit out of sight, & discovers himselfe, which warned the ffrench to hinder them to goe further uppon that score.
He putts on my shirt on his back, takes a knif and cutts a medail that hung to my necke.
The Scottish spectators did not like it at the time, because "oor Bobbie" was their best and greatest hope, and it seemed like feeding the devil with chocolates to give putts like this to English golfers.
Since then he has discovered that it is easier to make a million dollars than to hole a five-yard putt, for the Rockefeller millions now make themselves and the putts are as unholeable as ever.
On the other hand, Mr. Ouimet was blessed with no special luck, except that negative kind of luck that kept his ball out of trouble always, and made two puttsinvariably sufficient.
If it were not so easy, if there were good excuse for failure, those putts would not be missed so frequently.
Sometimes we see men putting one-handed, and one may believe that for medium and short putts this way is more certain than the separate hands.
How many putts have gone wrong that never need have done had the man who made them watched what happened when his adversary putted first!
He strokes the ball into the hole as though it were the simplest thing to do; easily and gracefully he putts it in.
Thus, take the case of Sherlock, who putts extremely well and consistently.
Golfers have now tried all things known, and more short putts are missed than ever.
The former favours the wooden putter, and he has one of that kind to which he is keenly attached, but he putts with all sorts of things as the spirit moves him on consideration of special circumstances.
I had never missed any putts of one foot, let alone the putts of two!
Then he returns to the first one, and again finds that his putts do not come off, and by this time he is in a hopeless quandary.
I fancied this new discovery of mine and had confidence in it, and that was why I got all those long putts down and achieved the golfer's greatest ambition.
Certainly a player can never be really great until he is nearly always certain to hole out in two putts on the green, and to get down a few in one.
It seems to me that golfers in considering their putts very often take too little pains to come to an accurate determination of the speed of the greens.
When the work with the mashie is indifferent or poor, the player is frequently left with long putts to negotiate, and is in a fever of anxiety until the last stroke has been made on the green.
But the men whose occupations are of the philosophical and peaceful kind are not the only ones who may be fairly likened to Andrew's "puir kittlin'" when there are short putts to be holed.
I am an excellent golfer and never take more than two putts in a bunker.
We had not, at that time, the rule that all putts should be holed out, and very early in the match he did not give a putt which I thought to be stony dead.
He had about six holes in hand with only nine to play, and then Fry began to do conjuring tricks, holing putts from the edge of the green, and so on.
There is but one of them, Miss Grant Suttie, so far as I have seen, who really studies her putts as a good man player studies them, and that is because she has played so much with men at North Berwick and has adopted their methods.
He would sometimes miss a short putt--in fact, I always rated him as good for a couple of missed short putts in the round--and that just gave one a chance to come in.
Both missed rainbow| |putts for fours and halved in 5.
Sawyer took three putts | |and counted a 7 for the first hole.
When ere your politick Prince putts his hooke into my nose Here must he put his Sword too.
I, Sir; but they are such phantasticall ayres as itputts a Poet out of his witts to rhime to them; but let mee heare.
Dorothy towards the dore puttsout the Candle and returnes.
My Lord, his Highnes putts into your hand A sword of Justice: draw it forth, I charge you By the oath made to your king, to smite this Traytour, The murtherer of my father!
And again he says: The strength of long putts can generally be more accurately regulated with a lofted putter than with a straight-faced one.
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.
I think very few golfers will be inclined to dispute the opening statement that "Putts most generally go wrong because the strength or the line, or both, were misjudged.
A player had one of those most tantalising putts a yard in length to play, and, like many a man before him, he missed it!
If he putts and misses, the deed is irrevocable, the stroke and the hole or the half have been lost, and nothing that can happen afterwards can remove the loss.
It is one of the hardest putts I have ever seen, I wish I had more loft on my putter.
Therefore we may take it as established that the very greatest players cannot do the very shortest putts with anything approaching to certainty, when it is of the very greatest importance that they should do so.
And worse still is the case of the man who goes up to his ball in such a circumstance and putts at it, perhaps with one hand, pretending to himself that he is not trying!
Just finished our putts on the home green at St. Andrews, and the sun going down, and up comes one of our impulsive party and says it is ordered that we go to Gullane to-night by car!
The history of every man's golf is covered with metaphorical gravestones as the result of all the short putts he has missed.
Soon afterwards it was all over; there was an amazing catastrophe on a fiery putting green and four or five putts were needed there.
Of course every day of our lives we see golfers, when studying their putts from the back side of the hole, allowing their putters to rest on the green in the continuation of the line.
Make a sort of hole on the carpet, or even go out on to the lawn and play at a real hole in the real way, and that little thing will hole the putts of a yard and two yards every time!
So Tukkey he putts 'em on an' moseys down ter de branch ter look at hisse'f in de water.
Then he putts of his gowne,--'There lyes the Bishop.
She goes up to the gateway and putts a string; a bell is heard ringing inside] Listen!
Putts the bell-rope outside the Hanseatic office] The bell does not ring.
He was on the porch and Cyril was practising putts on the clock green.
Waddles actually putts with an overspin, and his ball burrows like a mole, dropping into the cup as if made of lead.
I want to make sure that he plays every hole out, sinks all his putts and has his card turned in.
North lattitude and about 2 miles from Pennamau, wheir All the shipps that come to Pennamau rides, Thay putts for the Shipps, butt the Gover'r that had made his Eschape att the Stockadose did nott discry us, butt tolde them Sta.
Sharpe, being command't in chiefe, putts a commander of the May flower one Jno.
Now wee putts our selves all in Readiness for Pennamau, which lieth about 30 leagues from thiss Santa Marea river to the Northwards.
Coxon, seemed unwilling, butt with much perswaission went; those ii men that would returne, wee putts into their hands to carry that plate wee tooke heare.
His immature death putts me in mind of these verses of Propertius:-- Vere novo primoque in aetatis flore juventae, Ceu rosa virgineo pollice carpta, jaces.
The soile of the parke was so exceedingly barren, that it did beare a gray mosse, like that of an old park pale, which skreeks as one walkes on it, and putts ones teeth on edge.
May-dewe is a very great dissolvent of many things with the sunne, that will not be dissolved any other way; which putts me in mind of the rationality of the method used by Wm.
This verse putts me in mind of severall places in this countie that are or have been fortunate to their owners, or e contra.
Hinksey= was certainly amusing, and I have spent some not wholly unpleasant afternoons there squelching through the mud and trying vainly to hole putts by cannoning off alternate wormcasts.
If it is so hit, an iron shot of moderate length should see us safely on the green with the orthodox two putts for a four; if it is not, it would be rash to dogmatize as to what our precise score may be.
Three firmputts should see us down, winning the hole from our adversary, who misses a 'very short one.
The necessity of hitting our putts very hard covers many little deficiencies in our execution, but it is poor fun compared with the art of stroking the ball up to the hole.
Here two good shots should reach the green, and two very good putts may reach the bottom of the hole.
Sometimes they are good enough, though hardly ever easy; but very often, unless I have been exceptionally unfortunate in my experience, they are rather rough and lumpy, and make the holing of short putts a very anxious business.
I just made three perfect putts on the last green!
He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
The way you lay your approach-putts dead from anywhere!
Mary, there have been times when, going round by myself, I have allowed myself ten-foot putts on three holes in succession, simply in order to be able to say I had done the course in under a hundred.
An admirable iron-shot put him in reasonable proximity to the pin, and he holed out in one under bogey with one of the nicest putts I have ever beheld.
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