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If you dislike long losing hazards, you must and can try and play the cannon and potting game at the top of the table; if you hate those strokes, because you cannot do them, play an open game and go in for losing hazards from baulk. Now it is only the best players who are masters equally of five or six clubs, and I doubt if this can be said truly even of them. But even if this is true of clubs, there is yet another aspect of the question, and that is, the question of distance. There can be no doubt that golf is terribly trying to a man. In football you run your hardest and kick your hardest, and few spectators are much the wiser; and a nervous man can always hit hard at golf off the tee and through the green, for as he has not got to think of strength, he is less likely to fidget and foozle the ball. I very much doubt whether any player in England could truthfully say that all distances were alike to him, that he played equally well or equally badly at a shot that wanted a 180-yards knock or a thirty.

But it is true of golf that you will find it impossible to avoid being compelled some time or other to play with a club you have little confidence in, and to negotiate distances you hate. There is another reason why golf is a greater test of nerve than billiards, and that is the variety of weapons that you must have for different strokes. You cannot win a match if you approach and putt badly; but there are some courses, Sandwich, for instance, where you may just as well go home as dream of winning a match or making a respectable score if you are "off" your driving. If you get out, well you have no further opportunity of getting nervous till your second innings comes round, and under no circumstances ought a bowler to be nervous, as one bad ball may always be redeemed by a wicket next ball. If strength or the consideration of strength be the chief cause of nervousness, billiards ought therefore to be more of a test of nerve than golf. In billiards you play for a whole evening or for a whole match on the same table; that is a very small object as compared with a putting-green, and if you have any pretensions to play at all, you ought to gauge the pace of a billiard-table after an hour's play.

We do not pretend to have exhausted the subject, but we have made a start. If we are to be in the swim we shall have to reconsider our no-ball rule. We are all familiar with the huge strides that have been made by the introduction of the rubber-cored ball. Metropolis Mall is a popular tournament venue; the likes of Earl Strickland, Johnny Archer, Francisco Bustamante, what is billiards have all participated in tournaments there. There is no emphasis whatsoever on precision in the rules or game mechanics. Nerves appear to be absent one day and painfully present another: so there are red-letter days when even a nervous man can putt, but the more nervous a man is the worse will he putt, and in no other part of the game will he find nerves play such demoniacal tricks. I went to the site, but it doesn't look like I can vote for you on this one. We must look about us. We must look for complete stability. The whole pitch might be enclosed in a circular crease-which would look uncommonly well in Press photographs. Thus, I quickly activated my ever-dependable online search tools to look for such using the key phrases: Naperville electrician, Dallas electrician, and Tampa electrician.

Still, I think, on the whole, increasing age does carry some compensation for golfers; and I believe that when a man has played some years, and his handicap, may be, is brought from scratch to three, it is often found that his short game, especially his putting, is rather improved than otherwise. He has lost some of his length, he cannot force a ball out of its bunker as he did formerly, and his eye is not quick at judging the distance of about eighty yards which he has to carry to get over some danger. Tennis, for instance, when you first fail to win a short chase, or your opponent keeps on serving nicks; billiards, when your ball is always under a cushion, or the balls dead safe time after time; cricket, when an umpire has given you out by a mistake of judgment-all these are trials, and they form part of the discipline of life.