The Supreme Test – Golf Poetry

THE SUPREME TEST 
THE suitor warmly pressed his suit; 
(You know the suit I mean) ; 
The father listened patiently — 
His daughter was a queen. 
"How do you know you love my girl?" 
Then asked the cautious dad. 
The suitor said : "I've golfed with her, 
And love her still, by Gad!" 
"I've seen it, too," her father cried, 
Then meekly bowed his head. 
Her one best hole was seventeen — 
She's yours !" the old man said. 
Anonymous, in Lyrics of the Links, published in 1921