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Rh brassey. Inland players ought therefore to learn to play a cleek or driving mashie, which will be found most useful in the case of bad-lying balls, or even balls that are not in a really good lie.

Putting-greens are also very different in inland links. At certain times of the year, when not too hard, at any time in short except during a hard frost or a hot summer, they may be made as good as the sea-side greens, though far smaller. But to keep them good, labour in the shape of rolling must be expended. There are some inland greens with chalky subsoil, and in dry weather the grass here becomes a vanishing quantity. There are some first-rate sea-side links where occasional holes are found with clayey soils: these are very much akin to our inland courses, like the seventh hole at Sandwich and several greens at Littlestone, and it needs very little to cause lumps and excrescences to make their appearance on such greens. But, as a general rule, the sea-side putting-greens are far superior, they are smoother and faster, and the grass grows far more evenly. The good putter meets an inferior putter on more equal terms on greens which are rather rough;