12 DECEMBER 1908, Page 27

Golfers, a numerous and, we need hardly say, influential company,

will find Rules of Golf (Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool) a useful little manuaL It gives the rules as they have been finally settled by the "Royal and Ancient." They come in force on January 1st, 1909. An accompanying paper gives "Material Differences between Rules of 1902 and 1907," together with records of six great courses,—St. Andrews, Muirfield, Hoylake, Prestwich, Sandwich, and Deal. For the first only is the amateur record better than the professional; at Hoylake the two are equal. The total of the amateur records is four hundred and thirty-seven, of the professional four hundred and twenty-six.