GOLFING FIGURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 9

GOLFING FIGURES

THE DUFFER A scarlet doublet is his seemly guise, Nor doth he ever cease from crying “fore!” A card and pencil hath he for his score; He lacketh not for clubs in any wise. His caddie staggeretli beneath a store, Fitted for every stroke, and bold emprise, Of bunker dire or grievous cuppy lies, O:.- bents, or whins, or any hazard sore. Aid now upon the tee with visage sad His driver breaketh he, or fans the Whereat most like a pirate doth he swear, And leapeth up and down an’ he were mad. Anon, with frequent stroke, he gams the green. And putteth to and fro with frantic mien, , , ~ - And many a naughty word and oath of portent bad. THE CADDY With air indifferent and demeanour high, / , ... q, rude derision and unfeeling mirtn. Ho views the duffer plough the patient Or whirl’ the futile club against the Or haply, kindlier mannered, with no Of empty counsel doth the duffer play, And prattles of the clubs and of the In words unmeaning and of little Du£fer° rt be thine to him a generous He see“h things to others all unseen; Finds the lost ball well up upon the W th* artful kick redeems thee from Or siiouhT't'he score the pious fraud Cou"ve’ instead of seven with, countenance serene.