item: #1 of 8
          id: 11041
      author: Barbour, Ralph Henry
       title: The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
        date: None
       words: 64509
      flesch: 86
     summary: Why? asked Joel March. Joel March turned and retraced his steps to his dormitory.
    keywords: academy; afternoon; ankle; arms; backs; bad; bag; ball; band; bank; bartlett; battle; bed; bell; best; better; big; bit; blair; blue; bluff; boat; book; bore; boy; boys; breath; broad; broken; building; bunker; campus; canvas; captain; catch; center; chance; chapel; chapter; cheer; cheering; christie; class; clausen; cloud; club; coach; coaches; college; coming; continued; cooke; corner; country; course; crimson; crowd; cut; day; days; deal; deep; defeat; dickey; digbee; dining; distance; distant; door; dozen; drive; durkee; dutton; east; easy; end; enemy; eustace; evening; excellent; eyes; face; fact; faculty; fair; fall; far; father; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; field; fine; finish; flags; floor; football; forward; friends; gain; game; gentleman; glad; goal; golf; good; goodwin; grand; grass; great; green; gridiron; ground; guard; gymnasium; half; hall; hampton; hand; happy; hard; harwell; hat; head; heart; help; high; hillton; hilltonians; hold; hole; home; hope; hour; house; hurried; hurt; interest; joel; joel march; kick; kind; kingdon; known; lads; late; leave; left; length; lessons; let; life; like; line; links; list; little; long; look; lost; lot; maine; making; man; manner; march; masters; matter; mean; middle; mile; mind; minutes; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; muttered; near; new; nice; north; number; o'clock; office; old; ones; open; opposing; order; outfield; outfield west; outside; pass; past; path; paused; pigskin; place; play; players; playing; point; position; post; practice; present; prince; principal; probation; professor; punt; quarter; race; rah; red; referee; remsen; rest; result; return; right; river; room; rope; run; runner; running; save; scholarship; school; score; scrub; season; seat; second; senior; set; sharp; short; shoulder; silence; sir; small; somers; sorry; sound; spring; sproule; squad; stand; standing; station; stay; stephen; steps; story; straight; strange; straw; stream; strokes; studies; study; studying; substitute; sun; sure; table; tackle; talk; team; term; thing; thought; throng; throw; time; tommy; touch; tournament; tower; town; train; trainer; training; trousers; try; turf; turn; upper; varsity; victory; village; voice; wall; want; warm; warren; water; way; week; welcome; wesley; west; wheeler; wheels; whipple; whistle; white; wills; window; words; work; yards; yates; year; young; youth
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 28107
      author: Vardon, Harry
       title: The Complete Golfer
        date: None
       words: 110897
      flesch: 72
     summary: 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.
    keywords: able; accuracy; address; addressing; advantage; advice; american; andrew; answer; anxious; approach; arms; ask; attempt; attention; average; backward; bad; bag; balfour; ball; ball lie; ball match; ball strike; beginner; beginning; best; best ball; best golf; better; big; blade; body; boy; brassy; bunker; bunkered; caddie; card; care; careful; carry; case; centre; certain; championship; chance; chapter; choice; circumstances; class; clear; cleek; cleek shot; close; club; club head; coming; common; competition; complete; confidence; considerable; consideration; constant; contact; control; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; deal; decided; deep; desire; diagram; different; difficult; difficulties; direction; distance; doubt; downward; drive; drivers; driving; duty; early; easier; easy; effect; effort; end; excellent; experience; extent; eye; face; fact; failure; fall; fancy; far; fault; favour; feel; feeling; feet; final; fine; finish; fixed; flag; flight; follow; following; foot; forward; foursome; freedom; friend; future; game; ganton; general; giving; golf; golf ball; golf club; golfer; golfing; good; good ball; good drive; good game; good golf; good golfers; good play; good shot; grass; great; greater; greatest; green; grip; half; hand; handicap; happens; happy; hard; hazard; head; heel; high; hit; hole; hole course; home; hope; idea; illustration; impact; important; improvement; inches; inclined; inland; iron; iron club; jersey; kind; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; large; later; left; length; level; lie; lies; life; like; likely; line; links; little; loft; long; long ball; longer; look; loss; lost; low ball; makes; making; man; manner; mashie; match; match play; matches; matter; means; medal; merits; method; mind; mistakes; moment; money; moved; movement; muirfield; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; need; new; niblick; north; number; object; occasion; offer; old; ones; open; opinion; opponent; order; ordinary; park; particular; partner; penalty; people; perfect; period; photographs; piece; pitch; place; play; player; playing; pleasure; point; position; possible; power; practice; present; prestwick; professional; proper; pull; pulled; pulling; purpose; push; putter; putting; putts; question; reach; reason; record; regard; remark; rest; result; right; right hand; round; rule; run; running; said; sand; sandwich; satisfaction; score; scratch; seaside; second; sense; set; shaft; shorter; shot; shot hole; shoulder; simple; single; skill; slice; slicing; slope; slow; small; sort; special; speed; splendid; spot; stance; state; stick; stiff; story; straight; strength; stroke; study; style; stymie; success; sufficient; sure; swing; system; task; taylor; tee; teeing; tendency; test; thing; thought; thumb; time; toe; tom; tournament; trifle; trouble; true; trying; turf; turn; upward; use; useful; usual; utmost; vardon; variety; victory; view; want; watching; way; week; weight; willie; wind; wise; wooden; words; work; world; wrists; wrong; yards; years; young
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 31928
      author: Flint, Violet
       title: A Golfing Idyll; Or, The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews
        date: None
       words: 6983
      flesch: 83
     summary: 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.
    keywords: andrews; auld; aye; ball; bargain; bed; best; black; blue; breeks; caddie; care; clootie; cloots; clubs; dead; deep; deevil; deil; drink; explanation; feet; fine; fou; frae; free; friend; game; gane; gazed; golfing; good; grand; great; green; gude; hae; hand; head; heaven; hole; home; honour; hope; human; idyll; illustration; jock; jockie; keen; kent; lang; left; life; like; links; little; london; long; look; luck; mak; man; mark; maun; nae; ne'er; nurse; o'er; o't; old; play; poor; proof; proud; red; right; saw; scene; sea; sic; simple; skipper; story; strange; stroke; strong; tail; tak; tale; tell; thocht; thro; time; true; twas; view; weel; yellow
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 37136
      author: Leach, Henry
       title: The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer
        date: None
       words: 139337
      flesch: 71
     summary: 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.
    keywords: 8vo; absolute; accomplished; account; achievement; action; active; advance; advantage; affair; afternoon; age; ages; air; amateur; amazing; american golf; americans; ancient; andrews; andrews golf; approach; archibald; argument; association; atlantic; atmosphere; attempt; authorities; authority; autumn; avenue; average; bad; bag; balance; ball; beat; beautiful; bed; beginning; best; best game; best golf; bets; better; biarritz; big; blackheath; blackheath golf; blood; blue; body; book; boston; boulie; boy; braid; brassey; britain; british; british golf; brookline; bull; bunkered; bunkers; business; bye; caddie; canada; capacity; captain; car; care; cars; case; centre; century; certain; championship; change; chapter; character; charles; charm; charming; chicago; chicago golf; chief; child; circumstances; city; class; class golf; clear; cliff; climate; close; club play; clubs; cold; comfort; coming; committee; common; community; company; competition; complete; concerned; conditions; confidence; conscious; considerable; consideration; constant; construction; corner; cost; countries; country; country club; couple; courses; credit; cross; curious; cut; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; deep; delightful; desire; determined; different; difficult; difficulties; dignity; dinner; direction; discovery; distance; distant; dog; dollars; doubt; dozen; drive; driving; duke; duncan; early; earth; easier; east; easy; effect; effort; eighteenth; eighth; eleventh; emotions; end; engaged; england; english; enormous; enterprise; enthusiasm; equal; essential; europe; evening; events; exact; example; excellent; exercise; existence; experience; explanation; extent; extra; eye; eyes; face; fact; fair; fairway; fall; famous; fancy; far; farther; fascination; fast; fate; faults; favour; fear; feature; feel; feeling; feet; field; fifth; final; fine; finest; fingers; finished; fixed; flat; florence; following; fontainebleau; foot; force; foreign; forest; forget; form; forward; fourth; france; french; fresh; friends; future; gain; game; gathering; general; gentleman; george; gillies; girls; glad; glen; glorious; going; golf; golf association; golf ball; golf championship; golf club; golf course; golf de; golf links; golfers; golfing; good; good game; good golf; good man; grand; grass; great; great course; great game; great golf; greater; greatest; green; grip; half; hand; handicap; happiness; happy; hard; harry; head; health; heart; heavy; help; hesitation; high; higher; highest; hill; hilton; history; hit; hold; hole; holes course; holiday; holiday golf; holing; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; hoylake; human; hundreds; idea; illustrated; imagination; important; impossible; impression; improved; improvement; inches; inclined; indian; inevitable; influence; inland; inland golf; interesting; irish; iron; italy; james; jean; john; journey; joy; judgment; keen; kind; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; large; late; laws; lead; leave; left; leg; length; level; lies; life; like; likely; line; links; list; little; little course; little way; living; local; london; london golf; long; long time; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; love; low; luck; lunch; luz; m'dermott; madrid; magnificent; majority; making; man; man golfer; manner; marvellous; mashie; massachusetts; massy; match; matches; matter; meaning; means; medal; mediterranean; meeting; members; men; mental; merits; method; middle; miles; mind; minutes; missing; modern; moment; money; morning; morris; mother; mountains; movement; municipal golf; myopia; mysteries; mystery; national; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; nerves; nervous; net; new; new course; new golf; nice; nights; north; note; number; numerous; o'clock; object; occasion; office; old; old game; old golf; oldest; ones; onwentsia; open; opponent; order; ordinary; original; ouimet; outside; overlapping; park; particular; parts; pass; past; pastime; pau; peculiar; people; perfect; period; person; physical; picture; piece; place; plain; play; play golf; players; playing; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; position; posterity; pounds; power; practical; practice; present; president; prestwick; pretty; prince; principle; prize; process; professional; progress; proper; public; public golf; putter; putting; putts; pyrenees; qualities; quality; quarter; question; quick; race; ray; reach; real; reason; recent; record; regard; regular; reid; remarkable; remembered; respect; result; return; rich; right; river; riviera; riviera golf; road; rockefeller; rocks; rome; room; rough; round; royal; rubber; rule; running; sad; sandwich; satisfaction; satisfied; save; scene; scheme; school; score; scotland; scottish; scratch; sea; seaside; second; secretary; self; sense; september; service; set; setting; seventeenth; seventh; shaft; short game; shot; silver; simple; simplest; simplicity; single; sir; situation; sixth; skill; sleep; slow; small; smooth; social; soil; sorry; sorts; south; space; spain; spanish; spanish golf; special; spirit; splendid; sport; sporting; spring; staleness; stand; start; starting; statement; states; station; straight; strange; stream; streets; strength; stroke; strong; study; style; success; successful; suggestion; suit; summer; sun; supreme; sure; sweet; swing; swinging; system; talk; taylor; tee; temperament; tendency; theory; thing; thinking; thought; thousands; time; tired; tom; toronto; touch; town; traditions; train; travelling; travers; travis; trees; triumvirate; trouble; true; truth; trying; turf; turn; united; valley; valuable; value; vardon; variety; vast; victory; view; visit; waiting; wandering; water; way; ways; weather; week; weight; west; wheaton; white; wide; willie; wind; winning; winter; wise; wonder; wonderful; wooden; words; work; working; world; worse; wow; wrists; wrong; yards; years; york; young
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 37323
      author: None
       title: Poems on Golf
        date: None
       words: 11304
      flesch: 89
     summary: 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,
    keywords: advocate; air; andrews; arm; art; bad; baird; ball; beer; best; better; blow; blue; bold; bowl; boys; brave; canto; captain; care; castalio; chief; chorus_--three; clan; club; course; david; day; doubt; edinburgh; end; face; fair; fal; fall; fame; far; fate; field; flies; foe; footnote; force; friend; fury; game; glass; goddess; goff; golf; golfer; golfing; golfinia; good; great; green; ground; gutta; half; hand; head; hero; high; hole; honours; hope; innerleven; iron; james; john; jove; keen; life; like; links; little; long; lord; major; man; master; match; men; muse; noble; nymph; o'er; old; orb; page; pan; place; plains; play; play'd; praise; prize; putt; putter; putting; pygmalion; ral; road; rounds; royal; s.s.c; saddell; sandy; scarce; scotland; second; sir; skill; small; song; soul; sport; stout; strength; stroke; subject; sure; tee; thee; tho; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; tis; toast; tom; w.s; war; wind; work; world; writer; young
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 37394
      author: Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon)
       title: Fifty Years of Golf
        date: None
       words: 71739
      flesch: 77
     summary: 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.
    keywords: "--_the; 15s; abe; ability; able; account; advantage; afternoon; age; air; allan; amateur; amateur championship; america; amusing; ancient; anderson; andrews; andy; approach; arthur; author; autumn; bad; balance; balfour; ball; ball match; beat; beating; beautiful; beginning; berwick; best; better; biarritz; big; blackheath; bobby; book; boy; braid; brassey; bringing; brother; bunker; business; caddie; cambridge; capable; captain; care; case; certain; challenge; championship; chance; chapter; charles; chief; class; cleek; cloth; club; colonel; coming; comment; committee; common; company; competition; complete; condition; country; course; court; crawford; crookham; cup; cut; date; day; days; dead; deal; delight; devon; different; difficult; distance; doubt; douglas; drive; driving; dunn; early; easy; edinburgh; effect; end; england; english; essential; events; example; extra; extraordinary; eye; face; fact; family; far; father; feel; fellow; ferguson; final; fine; finest; finish; following; force; form; foursome; frank; freddy; friends; fun; gallant; gallery; game; garden; general; genius; george; glory; golf; golf ball; golf club; golfer; golfing; good; good golf; graham; grass; great; greater; green; gutty; half; halved; hammering; hand; hard; harold; harry; haskell; head; henry; high; hill; hilton; history; hit; hitting; hole; home; honour; hope; horace; hotel; house; hoylake; human; hutchinson; idea; illustrated; illustration; importance; influence; inland; instance; interest; international; iron; jack; james; jamie; johnnie; johnny; johnny ball; johnny laidlay; justice; keeping; kennard; kind; kindly; kirk; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; laidlay; lamb; large; later; law; left; length; leslie; level; life; like; likely; line; links; list; little; liverpool; local; london; long; longer; lord; lost; luck; macdonald; macfie; making; man; manner; match; matches; matter; maxwell; means; medal; meeting; men; merits; mighty; miles; mind; miss; modern; molesworth; moment; money; morning; morris; muirfield; mure; natural; nature; near; need; net; new; niblick; north; northam; note; number; occasion; odds; old; ones; open; opinion; opponent; order; oxford; pages; park; particular; partner; pau; people; percha; perfect; peter; pipe; pitch; place; play; player; playing; pleasant; pocket; point; poor; possible; post; power; practical; present; prestwick; pretty; previous; prize; professional; public; putt; putter; putting; qualities; quality; question; real; reason; record; reply; respect; result; right; robert; rolland; round; royal; rubber; rule; run; running; sandwich; saying; score; scotland; scots; scottish; scratch; seaside; second; semi; series; set; seventeenth; sheepskin; shot; simpson; single; sir; skill; small; soil; sons; sort; south; special; splendid; standing; start; starting; states; story; straight; strange; stroke; strong; style; subject; success; sure; surprise; swing; tait; talk; taylor; team; tee; terrible; thing; thought; time; tom; tommy; touch; tournament; travis; trees; trouble; true; truth; type; uncle; university; useful; value; vardon; village; visit; volume; walk; way; weather; weight; westward; white; wife; willy; wimbledon; win; wind; wonderful; wooden; work; world; worse; writing; years; young
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 38683
      author: None
       title: Mr. Punch's Golf Stories
        date: None
       words: 19732
      flesch: 90
     summary: Mine is golf balls. Not very; even a year ago you must have seen pneumatic golf balls--filled with compressed air?
    keywords: = =; abart; age; agin; air; allus; amanda; ancient; arf; askins; aunt; aunt susannah; ave; bad; bag; ball; becos; beginning; best; better; bit; book; boy; brellett; bunker; caddie; caddy; certain; chawley; chawnce; child; clubs; cold; colonel; course; day; days; dear; different; drive; e'd; ead; easy; enery; enuff; ere; erminius; eyes; fair; fore; form; frenchman; friend; game; giggington; glenwistle; golf; golfer; good; great; green; half; hand; handicap; head; hill; hole; humour; illustration; iron; isself; jentleman; jest; jones; kep; kind; knickerbockers; kornish; ladies; lady; large; left; life; like; links; little; long; looking; lord; lost; love; luck; major; man; manner; married; martin; match; mcbungo; means; member; mind; miss; missis; mister; moment; morning; mrs; nachure; new; niblick; nice; nime; nuthing; old; oom; owever; place; plan; play; player; pore; present; proud; punch; putter; question; rarnd; red; right; round; royal; rubber; s.j; schwabstein; score; second; ses; set; shots; sich; sir; small; smile; somethink; sort; square; squint; start; stories; stroke; success; susannah; swing; tee; tennis; thee; thing; thort; time; turn; use; uther; vardon; washer; way; widows; wif; wife; wilks; wimmen; winning; wiv; words; yards; years; yer; young; yusual; | |
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 41149
      author: Vaile, P. A. (Percy Adolphus)
       title: The Soul of Golf
        date: None
       words: 121227
      flesch: 65
     summary: 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.
    keywords: absolute; account; accuracy; accurate; action; address; advanced golf; advice; air; angle; apparent; approach; arc; arms; attempt; attention; author; axis; bad; bad golf; ball game; ball makers; balls; beginning; beneficial; best; better; billiard ball; blow; body; book; braid; case; centre; certain; chance; chapter; cheater; clear; club face; club head; clubs; common; complete; connection; considerable; consideration; contact; correct; course; cricket ball; curve; cut; day; deal; degree; different; difficult; direction; distance; distribution; doubt; downward; downward swing; drag; driver; driving; duncan; earth; edge; effect; end; error; evident; excrescences; explanation; extent; eye; eyes; face; fact; fallacy; false; famous; far; feet; finish; firm; flight; follow; following; foot; force; forward; fundamental; gallwey; game; golf ball; golf book; golf club; golf drive; golf grip; golf stroke; golf swing; golfer; golfing; good; good golf; gravity; great; greater; greatest; green; grip; guttie ball; half; hand; hard; harry; heel; highest; hit; hitting; hold; hole; horizontal; hutchinson; idea; illustration; impact; important; impossibility; impression; inches; inclined; influence; instance; intended; interesting; iron; james; james braid; kind; knee; knowledge; known; large; later; lawn; left; left hand; leg; length; lifting; like; line; little; loft; long; long ball; longer; low ball; main; majority; makes; making; manner; marked; mashie; mass; matter; means; mechanical; method; mind; modern golf; moment; motion; movement; muscles; mystery; natural; nature; necessary; need; nonsense; number; object; obvious; old; opinion; order; ordinary; ordinary golf; page; particular; payne; people; percha ball; perfect; period; photographs; place; player; playing; point; portion; position; possible; power; practical golf; practice; present; pressure; principles; production; professional; professor; pronounced; proper; pull; pulled; puts; putter; putting; question; ralph; reason; regard; remarkable; result; right; right foot; right hand; right leg; roll; rotation; round; rule; run; running; scientific; second; set; shaft; shot; shows; similar; simple; sir; slice; sliced ball; slope; small; smooth ball; sole; soul; speed; spin; spinning; spot; start; statement; straight; straight ball; striking; strokes; style; stymie; subject; success; sufficient; sweep; swerve; swing; tait; taylor; tee; tendency; tennis ball; tension; theory; thing; thinking; thomson; thought; time; toe; travel; travis; trouble; true; truth; turf; turn; upward; use; vardon; vertical; view; waggle; way; weight; wind; wonderful; words; work; world; wrists; wrong; yards; years
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