Is that a gimme?

The complex world of the dreaded short putt…

An earlier post (here) explored the sad loss of the stymie in the modern game, along with the move of professional golf towards an almost pure diet of 72 hole strokeplay (yawn), but there remains an element of match play golf in most clubs, and so one of the other charming remnants of a bygone age is still with us, the wonderfully named gimme.

For those…