The USGA concluded their Open Golf Tournament last weekend played in a corner of Puget Sound on a designer "links" course that would challenge a mountain goat. Several participants took falls and the Trophy was won and lost on the final 72nd hole. When I first dabbled in the game many years ago I had wooden shafts and clubs called niblicks and mashies. Now the current players have "hybrids" and the heads on the drivers are HUGE. One poor fellow swung his tee shot so hard the large head flew off and followed the ball down the fairway leaving him stunned and holding the shaft as his partner picked up the detached head. Then I recalled the words of Rudyard Kipling "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs........" Now it's off to St. Andrews in July.
tjs
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