And as for this being the most exposed course in England--well, let me ask you one question: have you ever played over the Worthing course with a strong northeast gale--a gale, mind you, not a wind--sweeping over the Downs ?" "Can't say I have," grunted the previous speaker, a tall cadaverous man, wrapped from head to foot in a great grey ulster, and wearing woollen gloves.

"In fact, I've never been on the Worthing course." "I thought not." The clergyman's face showed a golfer's satisfaction at having tripped a fellow player.

"The Worthing course is the most difficult course in England, all up hill and down dale, and full of pitfalls for those who don't know its peculiarities.

I had a very remarkable experience there, last year, with the crack local player--his handicap was plus two.

We played a round in a gale with the wind whistling over the high downs at the rate of seventy or eighty miles an hour.