The Golf Year - Book. Edited by John L. Low. (Nisbet and
(Jo. 3s. 6d.)—After the usual " Rules," "Etiquette ," and "Decisions," we have an essay from the editor entitled "A Plea for a Simpler Rule." Of this we will quote only a concluding sentence : "It would be happier for golf if we would only remember that the true good is in the playing of the game, not in the winning." Nothing could be more admirable. How is the principle to be enforced? Well, it cannot be enforced; all that can be done is to decline to play with those who show that they value the prize more than the play. After this we have a "Golfer's Calendar" (May-December, 1905) and the Directory of Golf Clubs (these may be reckoned at something like fifteen hundred in number, London, with about five millions of population, having seventy- four clubs, and Edinburgh, with about a twentieth part, nearly one hundred and twenty). Then we have details of clubs on the Continent and in America,—these latter number about two hundred and eighty. A golfer's "Who's Who" in two divisions, professional and amateur, follows, and then various descrip- tions of matches in the past season.
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