Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1918 — PLAYER BEHIND CLUB OF MOST IMPORTANCE [ARTICLE]

PLAYER BEHIND CLUB OF MOST IMPORTANCE

Inventions Seldom Assist Golfer in Improving His Game. Innovations In Form of a Club Rarely Prove Practicable—Correct Line, Proper Force and Touch Does the Business. With a million golfers in the United States, little wonder that the inventive mind occasionally ( offers suggestions ' which threaten to send the ancient game and its traditions Inventions rarely receive encouragement,, for “golf is golfand meant to be played as “she is writ;” and for that reason the iconoclasts seldom make more than a momentary flash ere fading away to oblivion. For instance, one is at a loss to know why anyone should suggest the substitution of yellow for white paint on a golf b'all. It has been claimed that under certain conditions white is hard on the eyes; that on a very bright day a more neutral color would be serviceable. , Yet. golfers have played for a good many years, and the sun has shone just as brightly in. the past as it does at present. It would be hard to get a better contrast than the white ball on the green turf. So far as the trade goes, there haye been comparatively few recommendations to change the color of the ball, though recently a man who is’ a frequenter of an Eastern link left an order with a sporting goods house for a dozen of one of the latest makes of rubber cores to be painted red. His reason was that when his shots went wandering among the glistening white shells of the Lido club course the caddie had trouble in locating the sphere. Consequently he figured it out that a red object' would be much easier to distinguish. Occasionally some one comes along with a new idea in the form of a club, but these innovations rarely prove practicable. Not long since a man had a new-fangled putter, with a head of abnormal size, and a mirror attachment on the shaft/ He'thought he had something that was likely to revolutionize the short game, but received no encouragement from the manufacturer to whom he showed the club. ** After all, the same old saying, “It’s the man behind the club,” continues to apply. If he hits the ball right it won’t go astray and there will be little trouble in finding it. While on the green it’s getting the correct line and knowing the proper force and touch that does the business, mirror or no mirror.