Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1917 — LONG DRIVE IS SATISFYING [ARTICLE]

LONG DRIVE IS SATISFYING

Golfer Is More Than Pleased When Ball Goes 200 Yards Straight Down the Field. What is the secret of the long drive in the game of golf? That it is not entirely due to physical power has been proven, but the answer proves the most elusive of things when one seeks to drive it to its lair. Let one say what he will about the feeling of satisfaction over a masbie pitched well to the green, or a long iron sent speeding toward the flag, or even the putt of 20 feet that lands in the cup—when all this is said and done, there is no exhilaration in golf quite comparable with that which follows a drive well over 200 yards sent straight down the middle of the field. There is an approach to it, one must admit, in the exultation that succeeds a brassie shot Of 200 yards or more, for there is certain surprise mingled with delight at picking the ball out of the grass and sending it on Its way like a bullet, and the element of surprise is lacking in the drive where the teed ball presents a suggestion of certainty which is not to be found out on the fairway. Still the tee shot begins the play of the hole, the sentiment that “well begun is half done” cannot but be associated with the initial shot, since If it is poorly made, there is a handicap established at once that must be overcome in the succeeding shots