And the golfer has seen more of the year, of the real year of Nature so complex and so complete in its variety and balance, than the other men who live in towns. He braved it in the open lands through the bitter weeks of January and February, and he was cheerful through the winds and rains that followed, for as the rainbows spread across the sky he knew that the glorious spring had come, most heartening time of all the golfing year. Then would he stamp his feet on turf grown firm, and acclaim his ball with affection for its constant cleanliness. The golfer, even he of the town, hears the change in the song of the birds, he notices the newcomers among them; he has interest in the leafing of the trees, and lo! the big sun of summer shines upon him. And when can golfer be happier than when, after droning lazily through a hot afternoon, he plays an evening round upon the links in those most perfect conditions for pure delight? Surely it is hard to say which of those rounds is the best, that of the spring morning, the autumn morning, or the one in the balmy evening of June. And the golfer, bold and lucky, who once in a way makes his ripest play on some wild day in December when the wind from the sea comes like a blast across the links and all above is dripping scud, would in his pride not grant that the golfer lived his life at the full on any of those other days of peace and calm. So, from the play in the long summer twilight, we wander down the year, through brown October to the greys that follow, and the white curtain falls at last upon the exhausted season. INDEX Aden Golf Club, 10 African coast, golf on the, 12 Age for golf, best, 293 America, golf in, 12 American ladies’ golf, 100 Anderson, Jamie, 89 Antarctic, golf in the, 11 Arabia, golf in, 10 Archerfield golf course, 140 Architecture, different classes of golf, 134 Argentine Republic, golf in the, 10 Asia, golf in, 10 Australia, golf in, 10 Austria, golf in, 9 Autumn meeting at St. Andrews, 186 Axes of rotation, 209 Bagdad, golf at, 10 Balfour, Jamie, 301 ---- The Rt. Hon. A. J., as a golfer, 37, 90 Ball, Mr. John, 124 Balls, different kinds of, etc., 54, 58; price and quality of, 59; rival manufacturers, 112; points of good, 203; too far-driving, 240; used in a year, 285 Barry, Mr. A. G., 293 Belgium, golf in, 9 Biassed balls, 205 Bicycles and golf, 158 Blackheath golf course, 159 ---- golfers, 160, 256 Bogey, 234; origin of, 237 Boulogne, golf at, 8 Braid, J., 26, 27, 293 Brassey, an ideal, 44 Briars hole at Hoylake, 125 Broughton, Capt., 53 Bruntsfield links, 77 ---- ---- Golf Club, 304 Buccleuch, Duke of, 299 Building estates and golf, 232 Bunkers, movable, 241