Possible Clues:

• Range for the motorist?
• Hitting the ball from the tee
• (Of rain) forceful
• When the doctor has four with gin, this is what he must not be doing
• Compulsive motoring
• In such rain, it's better than walking
• Gathering no energy for activity on the golf course
• (and 2) Document permitting one to operate vehicle on the roads
• All the times one would be doing this could make one teetotal, perhaps
• Of course one is always doing it on the 9 down side of hte car on the Continent