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132 the tee. There are many inland links played on commons where a pulled or sliced ball loses a great deal of distance to the striker, but he nearly always has a chance of recovering himself by the second shot. Of bunkers in front of the tee there are comparatively few, and the grass is no longer in one place than in another. You curse the day on which you were born when you top your drive, but so many holes are about 270 yards in length that unless it is a pronounced foozle you have a chance of landing your second shot near the green. In the case of a good drive an iron club has to be used for the second shot, and a brassey for the topped shot. At North Berwick or Sandwich in the great majority of holes a topped, sliced, or pulled drive means a loss of at least one stroke, and too often this means loss of the hole. The consequence of this is, that though both at St. Andrews and Warwick Common the ball is teed up and the same driver used, a man may find it far more difficult to drive well at St. Andrews than at Warwick. This gives an excellent illustration of the enormous influence nerve and temperament have on