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*liEvans Says Once Necessary Club Is Now Being Supplanted by the Driver and Spoon..St.1,BY CHARLES (“CHICK”) EVANS.HE 'brassieest,icf3-ll»yrfL-GCClC'shot is becoming more and more a thing of the past, and by a brassie shot I mean any shot after the tee shot has been played that is too long for the irons. Donald Ross says that three-shot holes are really only names now. Years ago before the advent of the rubber-cored balls the brassieavdoa.t.isftd8.1-B.was a very important club, but since the com; ng of the new ball its use for the second shot has constantly decreased among the more skillful players.It may be explained for the benefit ofthose new to the game that a brassie isreally a well-lofted driver with brass-covered sole. Sometimes it is shorter than the driver, but that is a matter of individual choice. As the ball lies close toB:o}fd!oitthefairrrreen and is not teed up likei;eo•ea-L1ntOedLe1-yrr£■»the driver lie it is easy to understand that the brass sole is intended to prevent the club from being injured by the rough ground underlying the fair way. I appealed to Tom Bendelow, the well-known golf authority, for a detailed explanation of the origin of the club and I found the information very interesting.“At a certain length from the tee at a certain hole at St. Andrews,” said Tom ‘‘there was a gravelly outcropping.” In consequence the wooden club used for the second shot had to be constantly repaired. At first the club was mended with a bit of ram’s horn, but It was finally determined to shoe the new club, as Tom expresses it, to avoid the necessity of frequent repair. Then some one tried i brass plate covering the entire sole and as this was much more durable the innovation at once becamq popular and last-hbPadtiotia:na:iFbiamg.Brassie Once Useful Club.fi31n1-tsnJ.In the days of the gutta-percha ball the brassie was very useful. Those were the halcyon days of Colonel Bogey, a very genial, pleasant military man who is gradually j being displaced by a grimmer, harder old gentleman called Mr. Par. In those days bogey was figured at 175 yards for a drive and 150 for a brassie, and a player get ting home on a 323-yard nole was playing remarkable golf. Colonel Bogey, be it said, always drove straight and was not affected by conditions of weather.Of course there always was a brassie shot on those 325-yard holes and when winds were a little unfavorable threevalatiuni AVFwb:Nb
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, May 23, 1913
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