BALLS :
The ball used in playing golf is make in various sizes, but that most in use measures about 1.75 inches in diameter. It is usually made of well-seasoned gutta-percha, grooved or notched on the surface, and painted white.
CLUBS:
There are varieties of golf clubs, but those most commonly in use, and all that are really necessary for the player, are as follows: Driver, Brassy, Cleek, Mashei, Iron, Niblick, and Putter. All other golf clubs are either adaptations or modifications of these.
DRIVER:The driver is the club used from the tee if the hole is long, or if the ball lies well, whenever it is desired to play it as far as possible towards the hole. It is a wooden club with a long powerful shaft.
BRASSY:The head of the brassy is smaller and shorter than that of the driver, and the sole is shod with brass, to preserve the wood when the ball has to be played from stony or hard ground.
CLEEK:The cleek is an iron-headed club with a straight and narrow face. The shaft is longer than that of other iron clubs, and it is chiefly used in playing full shots through the green, when a wooded club would take it too far.
IRON:The iron has a deeper blade or face than the cleek and it is shorter in the shaft. Irons are made of various weights and with various degrees of pitch or loft, and are chiefly used for approaching the ball lies badly, or for lifting the ball over hazards or out of sand.
MASHIE: The mashie is shorter in the head than the iron, and bears much
the same relation to it that the brassy does to the driver. The niblick
is used when the ball lies badly in sand, mud, whines, or other hazards,
or wherever it is necessary to use great force to extricate the ball from
its position.
PUTTER:The putter is used chiefly after the ball has been played on to the
putting-green, to play the ball into the hole.