are
thrown too much upwards. Try a tighter grip. Remember that the grip with
_both_ hands should be firm. That with the right hand should not be
slack, as one is so often told.

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If your eyesight is not good and you are obliged to resort to artificial
aids when playing the game, wear spectacles rather than eye-glasses, and
specially made sporting spectacles in preference to any others. It is of
the utmost importance that the glasses should not only be perfectly
steady at all times, but that the rims should not be so near to the
centre of vision as to interfere with it under any circumstances. The
sporting spectacles which I recommend are similar to those used for
billiards and shooting. The rims and the glasses are circular and not
oval in shape, and they are unusually large--about 1-1/2 inches in
diameter. By the use of them the player is afforded a field of vision as
wide as with the naked eye, so that practically he is not conscious that
he is wearing glasses at all. The eye is a factor of such immense
importance in the proper playing of golf, that this is a matter to be
strongly insisted upon. My own eyesight is perfect, and I have never had
occasion to resort to artificial assistance of it, but I adopt these
suggestions from players of experience who have worn these glasses and
upon whose judgment I can rely.

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If you have no caddie, do not order your opponent's caddie about as if
you were paying for his services. Any assistance that he may give you is
an act of courtesy extended to you by your opponent.

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Always fill in afterwards every hole that you make in a bunker. If all
players do that, both you and the others will benefit constantly.

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Make a point of seeing that your caddie always replaces your divots, or
replace them yourself if you have no caddie. This, as we all know, is a
golfer's first duty. If your ball at any time came to rest in a hole
where a divot had not been replaced, you would be extremely annoyed,
would say hard things about the other players on the links, and would
declare that the course was badly kept.

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Never practise swinging on the putting green. It is not good for the
green, and the greenkeeper who takes a pride in the results of his work
is not usually in the best of tempers when he sees you at th