Crossword-Solution: STYMIES 7 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Men who had but lately scoffed at the little white ball now talked of stymies and lies and devits as if they had known them all their lives.

But most, when tongues of golfers wag, Talking their dreadful shop Of rotten luck and stymies laid And chip-approaches, TAYLOR-made-- Oh, then I want a standard _gag_ To make the blighters stop.

Upon the very difficult and annoying question of stymies there are few hints that I can offer which will not suggest themselves to the player of a very little experience.

The fact which must be driven home is that some stymies are negotiable and others are not--not by any player or by any method.

Elsie, who had spent most of her life on the east coast of Scotland, was discussing matters that were Greek to poor cricketing Pip,--stymies, mashies, Kites, Falcons, and other fearful wild-fowl,--and Cullyngham was offering to play Elsie a match round the home course next day.