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id: 31928
author: Flint, Violet
title: A Golfing Idyll; Or, The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews
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words: 6983
sentence: 328
flesch: 83
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  The carlines they put on their specs, Six pair o' een bore on the breeks; Awe-struck they saw upon the seat, Brunt black and deep, the mark complete Of Clootie's tail, like the broad arrow, Clear and distinct as tooth o' harrow! My native pride, love o' the game, Blazed in my heart like altar flame.


id: 37323
title: Poems on Golf
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words: 11304
sentence: 701
flesch: 89
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  Ye sons of ancient Reekie, And by green fields and sunny slopes, For healthy pastime seek ye. Don't bounce about your _dogs of war_, Nor at our _shinties_ scoff, boys, But learn our motto, _Sure and Far_, Then come and play at Golf, boys. Man_, I sing, who, em'lous, plies The jointed club, whose balls invade the skies, Who from _Edina's_ tow'rs, his peaceful home,


id: 38683
title: Mr. Punch's Golf Stories
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words: 19732
sentence: 1873
flesch: 90
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  Mine is golf balls. Not very; even a year ago you must have seen pneumatic golf balls--filled with compressed air?


id: 37394
author: Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon)
title: Fifty Years of Golf
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flesch: 77
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  Only a year or two before I had taken an unfortunate interest in a patent substance called Maponite, of which, in addition to a thousand and one other things for which gutta-percha and indiarubber are used, golf balls were to be made. And wherein exactly was the weak point about the stuff as a material for golf balls I never knew, for the trial balls that they made for us were excellent--I remember that I won an open tournament at Brancaster with them--but as soon as ever they began to turn them out in numbers they were useful for one end only--for the good of the club-makers--for they were hard stony things which broke up the wooden clubs as if one had used the clubs as stone hammers.


id: 28107
author: Vardon, Harry
title: The Complete Golfer
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words: 110897
sentence: 4022
flesch: 72
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  And even though, when the beginner gathers knowledge of the game and finds out his own style--which neither he nor the professional can determine in advance--some of them may gradually become unsuitable to him, they are nevertheless likely to be in themselves good clubs. Such a man does not deserve to have good clubs, nor to play good strokes with them.


id: 41149
author: Vaile, P. A. (Percy Adolphus)
title: The Soul of Golf
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sentence: 3663
flesch: 65
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  If one were to suggest to a billiard player that it would improve the run of the balls if they were covered with little excrescences similar to those which are on many golf balls, he would be pitied or maltreated, yet Mid-Surrey greens are not many removes from a billiard table, and putting is quite half the game of golf, as I think has been remarked by a great number of people, but is nevertheless not sufficiently considered by golfers, especially in the matter of choosing golf balls. If this were correct, I should have to bring before you this evening a new dynamics and announce that matter when made up into golf balls obeys laws of an entirely different character from those governing its action when in any other condition.


id: 37136
author: Leach, Henry
title: The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer
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sentence: 5098
flesch: 71
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  It was made before it was the fashion to erect palaces on golf courses, and sheet-iron bulks largely in its composition; yet it is cosy enough inside, and contains many relics of peculiar interest. I have always found it as a most remarkable thing that where great battles have been waged, and big encampments made, golf courses in a great number of cases have been laid out there later.


