CHAPTER VIII
Characteristics
I have elsewhere remarked, that golf is a bad game for schools. It is a game for individuals, but not for a side. No golfer ever became first rate who did not begin the game early. The boy, however, should learn not at school, but in the holidays. He can learn how to swing and get a true and good style, and having got this it will do him no harm to put the game aside for a time; and in the meanwhile play the games suitable for youths, where self is kept under, and the interests of the side and comradeship prevail—rowing, football, and cricket.
Golfers of the old school scorn the idea that golf is a game for middle age and old age. If the question is sifted to the bottom, it may
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