The Golfing Pilgrim on Many Links (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Golfing Pilgrim on Many Links That John Bunyan was not a golfer. There, at hand, or beneath his feet, would have been found such a wealth of allegory. Even the poor ordinary golfer, who has given names to the features of links, has seemed inspired with some small measure of his genius. At the long hole going out, do we not struggle on to the blessed Elysian Fields after cruel peril of that parlously named bunker Hell, in which lurk monsters of many shapes, from Giant Despair to Apollyon the Destroyer But the imagery has not been half exhausted. That very company to which John Bunyan intro duces us, do we not meet them all, and recognise them as old friends upon the links? Who does not know, only too well, Mr Talkative - talkative in season and out of season, on the stroke, and in the club? Who has not laughed in cruel triumph, with Mr Faint-heart as his opponent And who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.