Golf clubs are of varying weights and forms

according to the taste and requirements of the players, The bal is are made of composition, and when skillfully driven seem to fly like bullets through the air, making a free field absolutely nece ary to the safety of players. The chief requisites of the game are thus set forth by Thomas Bendelow, who did much to make it popular in the United States: The prime nece ity for golf is plenty of room. ‘The course, called “ Jinks,’ should not be le than 3 miles round nor more than 5. Throughout it are distributed 18 artificial holes at any distance from 1 to 500 yards apart. The holes are 41% inches in diameter, and each is surrounded with a “putting green,” a space 60 feet square and as smooth as po ible. The other requisites are two small balls about two inches in: diameter and made of gutta-perch a, _ and a number of ‘“clubs”’ adapted to the various contingencies likely to erise. The object of the game is to knock the ball with the sticks into the series of holes in the least number of strokes. The game can be played either by two persons, each having his own ball and counting by holes, not by the strokes taken for the whole round — this is called singles, or foursomes, two persons playing agiinst another two, the partners playing alternate strokes, each side having its own ball. At the betes of the game the player puts a little pat of sand down on the “teeing ground” (the pat is the “tee’’), sets the ball on the top, - and strikes it as far as he can in the direction of the first hole. After that, until he holes the ball, he must play it strictly from the place it happens to be. Here is where the bunkers come in, for a ball may land in a ditch or under a bank, where it may take him many strokes to get it into open ground again, and he may be called upon to use many different kinds of clubs, according to the nature of the ground and his distance from his object. The object of the putting green which surrounds the hole is to give the player a smooth space, enabling him to aim with accuracy. Having “ holed” his ball, the enn takes it out, tees it pen, and starts out for the next hole. A good driving stroke from a tee would be 200 yards. But a record of 280 po has been made at St. Andrews, Scotland. There are two styles of clubs, the wood and the iron, the latter having the head shod with steel. Altogether there are 19 pa = of clubs, but six are usually sufficient for a man‘s needs. The different clubs are used under different circumstances; for example, a putter for playing short strokes on the putting green; a cleek for drives; the driving iron when it is advisable to make a long drive, lifting the ball moderately high, the lifting iron when it is required to pitch the ball very high; the niblic for raising a ball out of ruts; the driver for long drives from a tee.