The newspapers, for instance, make far more fuss about a phenomenal drive or brassey than they do about a neat, graceful lofted stroke, which demands perhaps the greatest skill that any golfer can attain. The lofted fifty yards shot is perhaps the most difficult shot in golf, and what does the nervous golfer do in most cases? He either cuts it too fine and is very short in the attempt to lay it dead, or else, frightened of the bunker that lies so dangerously near to him, he determines to get over at all risks and overruns the green by forty or fifty yards. But when you are fifty yards from the hole, and a bunker yawning between you and it, or when you have to lay an approach putt of twenty yards more or less dead to win or halve a hole, then the question of nerve becomes everything, because strength is everything. Such players ask for the stimie to be abolished, not because the interests of the game demand it, but because they are incompetent. I know it, and I had a right to. Marketing skills: You need to know how to effectively promote your pool hall to attract customers.

But putting has to be gone through every hole, and no golfer exists who does not know that putting is more than half a matter of nerve and nerve only. Whether you’re looking to compete, socialize, or simply enjoy a leisurely game, we at Hanami Hotel Danang believe that NHAN Bida Club offers an exceptional environment for anyone who appreciates the finesse of billiards. The same argument was held in the case of the spot stroke at billiards, but there was this enormous difference-in billiards the spot stroke became so easy to all first-class players that it paid to neglect all the rest of the game. This is a misfortune both from the point of view of the game itself and for the enjoyment it provides for its followers. But it is absolutely true that after forty years of age there is an appreciable diminution in length of drive and power, and though fortunately there is no reason why golf should not be enjoyed as much as ever, it would be a misfortune if the honours of golf should altogether be denied to the man of mature years merely because the stress of time had taken some yards off his long game.

That may be the reason why it is difficult for him to win certain holes, but there ought to be other holes where compensation is possible; and the long-driving youth being forced to use restraint, is punished for attempting this wholesome discipline, What is a billiards club and the middle-aged man may smile. There may safely be holes of great length to call forth the utmost strength of the youth to reach in two strokes; there may be others where, however you play them, it is impossible to reach the hole without a skilful loft. There is nothing more certain than that in golf, as in cricket, great length of hit is possible to those whose joints are full of oil and supple, and to those only, which in other words means youth. Now tennis is all rush and hit, and unless the rules are altered it will become as much a game for youth as football. As time went on, medal play, a bastard and degrading form of play as compared to match play, came into greater prominence, and players generally came to place an exaggerated value on score play: and now there is an increasing agitation in favour of the stimie being abolished even in match play.

Use of the halftone, too, invented by Frederic Ives of Philadelphia in the late 70's, and by now so far developed and cheapened as to begin displacing the less exact and more cumbersome and expensive illustrations by staff artists, was soon to simplify the picture problem and give the sport page added life and attractiveness. This one, however, has been forced upon us by our secretary, and in view of the age of the complainants I think we cannot well decline to give them a specific answer. 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. Around the billiard table, friendships are formed, laughter is shared, and the spirit of friendly competition thrives. Medal or score play is a necessity in these days of competitions and spring and autumn meetings, and stimies no doubt must be abolished in this sort of competition; but I for one object to the spirit of score play being allowed to pervade the whole game of golf.