CHAPTER I

GOLF AT HOME 1

The happy golfer--A beginning at Jersey--The Vardon family--An anxious tutor--Golfers come to Grouville--A fine natural course--Initiation as a caddie--Primitive golf--How we made our clubs--Matches in the moonlight--Early progress--The study of methods--Not a single lesson--I become a gardener--The advice of my employer--"Never give up golf"--A nervous player to begin with--My first competition--My brother Tom leaves home--He wins a prize at Musselburgh--I decide for professionalism--An appointment at Ripon.