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Show Golf Star Overreaches in Praise of New Standard Orb ' Iiobhy Jones Is doiiiff all in his power, through his writings, to popularize popu-larize the new standard hall, but parts of his latest article wiU cause snickers snick-ers among the great rank and tile of players. W hen he talUs ahout playing play-ing a half shot with a number two iron when lie used to play a full shot with a number four, he is talking talk-ing a different language than a great, great majority, for this reason: j lie says that tliere is little loss of j distance with the new standard ball compared with the old, which means that with the new he must be driving driv-ing somewhere around "'7."i yards, un- ! j a s v.- i V 1 BoDBy Jones. der normal conditions. When he talked about a number four iron with the old ball he presumably is speaking speak-ing of approximately 100 yards or somewhere thereabouts, or a total of 435 yards, if not more, for the two shots, more rather than less. Imagine Imag-ine the average golfer trying to get 435 yards or more with a drive and a half shot with a number two iron! |