is the result of much experience, and has
not been arbitrarily chosen for her especial discomfort.

In like manner the stance, or way of standing when making a stroke, must
be noted carefully and copied exactly. In private practice defy the
inward tempter which suggests that you can do much better in some other
way. Don't, above all, allow yourself to think that you will hit the
ball more surely if you stand farther behind it--not even if you have
seen your brother tee a ball away to the left of his left foot and still
get a long shot.

[Sidenote: "Keep your Eye on the Ball"]

Don't think that the perpetual injunction, "Keep your eye on the ball,"
is an irritating formula with little reason behind it. It is, as a
matter of fact, a law quite as much for your teacher as for yourself.
And don't suppose that you _have_ kept your eye on the ball because you
think you have. It is wonderful how easy it is to keep your eye
glued--so to speak--to the ball until the very half-second when that
duty is most important and then to lift the head, spoiling the shot. If
you can persuade yourself to look at the ball all through the stroke,
and to look at the spot where the ball was even after the ball is away,
you will find that you not only hit the ball satisfactorily but that it
flies straighter than you had hitherto found it willing to do. When you
are getting on, and begin to have some satisfaction with yourself, then
remember that this maxim still requires as close observance as ever. If
you find yourself off your game--such as it is--ask yourself at once,
"Am I keeping my eye on the ball?" And don't be in a hurry to assume
that you were.

Always bear in mind, too, that you want to hit the ball with a kind of
combined motion, which is to include the swing of your body. You are not
there to use your arms only. If you begin young, you will, I expect,
find little difficulty in this. It is, to older players, quite amazing
how readily a youngster will fall into a swing that is the embodiment of
grace and ease.

Putting is said by some to be not an art but an inspiration. Perhaps
that is why ladies take so readily to it. On the green a girl is at no
disadvantage with a boy. But remember that there is no ordinary stroke
over which care pays so well as the putt; and that there is no stroke in
which carelessness can be followed by such humiliating disaster. Don't
think it superfluous to examine the line of a putt; and don't, on any
acc