The common clubs in most players’ outfits consist of a driver, brassie, cleek, iron, and putter.  We can add to this list almost indefinitely if we wish, as there are all sorts of clubs made for various shots and with various angles.  The game of golf consists in covering a certain fixed course in the fewest number of shots.  We shall have to practise both for distance and accuracy.  The first few shots on a hole of average length will give us an opportunity for distance.  This is especially true of the first shot, or drive, but after that we make what are known as approach shots—­that is to say, we are approaching the putting green where we complete the hole by “putting” the ball into the tin cup sunk into the ground.  On the green we shall need to be very careful, as a stroke wasted or poorly played counts just as much against our score if the ball goes only a few feet as if we sliced or “foozled” our drive.

In scoring for golf there are two methods:  Either the score of each hole is taken and the winner of a majority of holes wins the match, or the total score in counted as in “medal” or “tournament play.”

“Bogie score” is a fictitious score for the course that is supposed to denote perfect playing without flukes or luck.  The mysterious “Colonel Bogie” is an imaginary player who always makes this score.

XVIII

PHOTOGRAPHY

The selection of a camera—­Snapshots vs. real pictures—­How to make a photograph from start to finish

Aside from our own pleasant recollections, an album of photographs can be the most satisfactory reminder of the good times we have had on some vacation or outdoor trip.

Photography has been made so easy and so inexpensive by modern methods that every one should have some kind of a camera.  Small instruments capable of taking really excellent pictures within their limits can be bought for five dollars or even less.  Of course we cannot hope often to obtain pictures that will be really artistic with such a small outfit, but sometimes the inexpensive cameras will give remarkably good results.

Snapshot pictures seem to fill such an important place in our outdoor life that no vacation or excursion trip seems to be complete unless some one takes along a camera.

The modern way of taking pictures, which is simply pressing a button and sending a film to the professional to “do the rest,” including developing, printing and mounting, is really not photography.  Almost any one can take pictures with a small hand camera.  The manufacturers have perfected instruments so complete for this kind of work that there is very little for us to do beyond being sure that we have an unexposed section of film in place and that we have sufficient light to obtain a picture.  Of course we must have the focus right and must be sure we are pointing at what we wish to take.