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134 same thing, he promptly does it. On the inland course the same player has very likely missed his drive at a particular hole, but has recovered himself by the second; and though this second shot may not be forgotten, the foozled drive is, because the striker has lost nothing by it. The inland course does not as a rule punish the bad drive like the sea-side; the player therefore having less to fear drives with a light heart, and with a mind undisturbed by danger and hazards; and though the ball is equally teed up at the sea-side, and he uses the same favourite club, he misses there and succeeds on the inland.

There is another great distinction between inland and sea-side golf. The wind blows far more over the sea-side links. To first-rate players the wind must be very obstreperous to make more than a few strokes' difference in their play; but to inferior players any perceptible wind, especially if it should blow across the course, causes infinite disturbance. The same thing that has just been pointed out occurs here. On the inland course, where there is a cross wind, the badly-hit ball is blown a long way off the line, but not half so often into a