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As each year goes by I fear the true sporting spirit of match play is less and less in evidence. We find a growing disposition for play to concentrate on the figures that are registered at a hole rather than on the question of whether the hole is lost or won in a purely friendly match.
TOM SIMPSON

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As each year goes by I fear the true sporting spirit of match play is less and less in evidence. We find a growing disposition for play to concentrate on the figures that are registered at a hole rather than on the question of whether the hole is lost or won in a purely friendly match.
TOM SIMPSON

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In every department of architecture the artistic form of expression is always the most attractive.
TOM SIMPSON

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In every department of architecture the artistic form of expression is always the most attractive.
TOM SIMPSON

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In every department of architecture the artistic form of expression is always the most attractive.
TOM SIMPSON

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In every department of architecture the artistic form of expression is always the most attractive.
TOM SIMPSON

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Never let a green be absolutely flat. Billiard table greens can never pretend to be artistic. Something must be done to introduce a little novelty and remove baldness of design. TOM SIMPSON and H.N. WETHERED

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That little bunker on the seventeenth green at St. Andrews, that group of rushes on the fourteenth green at Hoylake, that “trap” bunker at the third green at North Berwick, these hazards are not to be laughed at or lightly lofted, they must be negotiated with nicety and avoided with avidity. JOHN LOW

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That little bunker on the seventeenth green at St. Andrews, that group of rushes on the fourteenth green at Hoylake, that “trap” bunker at the third green at North Berwick, these hazards are not to be laughed at or lightly lofted, they must be negotiated with nicety and avoided with avidity. JOHN LOW

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That little bunker on the seventeenth green at St. Andrews, that group of rushes on the fourteenth green at Hoylake, that “trap” bunker at the third green at North Berwick, these hazards are not to be laughed at or lightly lofted, they must be negotiated with nicety and avoided with avidity. JOHN LOW

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That little bunker on the seventeenth green at St. Andrews, that group of rushes on the fourteenth green at Hoylake, that “trap” bunker at the third green at North Berwick, these hazards are not to be laughed at or lightly lofted, they must be negotiated with nicety and avoided with avidity. JOHN LOW

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I am against an endless succession of greens with rolls, bumps, and dips. I believe each course or each links should have at least four or five greens, well distributed, that are practically flat after the nature of the ground, with less artificial building up. One gets extremely tired of putting on nothing but molded greens with sudden dips and rises to work out. A few of these, when not overdone, are well enough, but there should be variety. C.B. MACDONALD

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Mr. Hilton has referred to the irregular surface of Hoylake as rarely affording an absolutely flat stance, a fact to which he says the attention is drawn more noticeably on returning from golf elsewhere. To be able always to stand true to our ball can have an enormous influence on the truth of the stroke, and this explains much of the difficulty of the greater links and their suitability for the most exacting tests of all. It also possibly explains the failures of players who are undoubtedly fine stroke producers but minimize their chances by spending their days on their own park or otherwise artificial courses. H.N. WETHERED

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