CHAPTER IX
Golf Development
I can only speak of the development of golf from what I have heard, not from what I have seen, but it is not difficult to see and understand certain things which govern the development of all games: I may mention improvement of weapons and balls, the huge increase in the number of golf links and players, and to a certain extent the superior knowledge of turf, and the widening of the links which a lot of golf always produces. In cricket, as I have endeavoured to show, these principles have combined to bring the great game to a condition of impotence; the ingenuity of man has improved the bat and the grounds to such an extent that the ingenuity of man must now set its wits to work to restore the balance; the bat must be
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