The Seven Stages of Golf.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 347, 1 January 1903, Page 4

The Seven Stages of Golf.

'. All tho world's a links, And all the men and women merely players | They have their caddies and their diffe- ' •■■-• renoes, And one man in his time plays many rounds, His clubs being seven stages: First tho driver, Whipping and whizsing off a sandy tee, Striking the ground perhaps with sickening And absence of With brazenundersfde apdir«q#nt slice: Atfcicky club is he;* Uf OffrJfe head W Descends an imprecation. Then the cleek Resounding sometimes with a healthy ping} Bufcmore thaiftoften not. An iron jdfext, That backward bent to arm that weilds it. To » approach more courapo than to run away, more of skill \ the mashie, then, pffist be perforce encountered; awkward _ > more grey hairs to the ageing Pbsfc'a who/esoa of troubles, or tho coursL ' ssskiwiff t declining years. But how can map £l!ji£*ettef than in facing fearful odds J your masbie I Then the niblick 'rW?' : blunt, ■■'•' ,:■' Yoiir curly-fjriendiin,need; from bunker '. . '■'< ,>gnniA.i-i.tT't' <~ • ■ : ; . '? To play the deawt'svpart. And lasfcof all. The club s&jwhioH you mjss a .tfto-foot Which throwing down, you^omewajd?liß% and curse; Curse clubs, curse baljtv curse golf, curse ■ everythmgV y<r "' '' —Harold Sisnjeob ie "(tamiV