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Everard DRIVING OLF consists of driving, iron play, and for their unquestioned superiority is prob- G putting; "an art, a science and an ably due to exceptional physical advan- inspiration," to quote the happy aphorism tages, but even they are sometimes ap- of Mr. James Cunningham. Now, un- proached by mortals of more common doubtedly, the two last items contribute clay, and much virtue resides in the exact more to material success, or dismal fail- center of your club. Nothing is more ure, as the case may be, than the first; for surprising at golf than the unaccountable if a player manage to scramble along a manner in which a ball properly struck, fair distance and keep clear of difficulties, with no great effort, often ranges itself invariably holing in three from his ap- alongside of one of these apparently un- proach and in two when on the green, he approachable swipes of the sort that elicit will unquestionably prove a very dan- grunts of astonishment from the admi- gerous antagonist. Nineteen matches out ring crowd. How, then, are we to learn of twenty are lost and won at short range to drive? Let us first of all consider how from the hole. But ask that proportion the motive power is obtained. As a fair of golfers what in their estimation is the working hypothesis we may say that there most enjoyable part of the game and are three parts of the body, each of which they will tell you nothing can compare contributes its share of the power re- with long sweet driving from the tee and quired to make the head of the club move through the green—it is the very poetry of in its orbit, and these act in circles which the game. Is this much-vaunted art, are concentric or nearly so: therefore, so difficult of acquirement ? We 1. The loins and back. answer pretty confidently, no; provided 2. The arms. always that the learner be not absolutely 3. The wrists. paralytic of limb, and, most important of Now let the learner take a club and he all, that in his early days of initiation he will find by experiment first, that if he enlist the services of a thoroughly com- keep the arms and wrists stiff, by use of petent instructor. We cannot all, it is the loins alone he will be able to make the true, become Rollands and Blackwells, club head travel over an arc of about qo Copyright, 1908, iiy ARTHUR TOTTOW. All rights reserrtd. GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE will experience a very gratifying sensation of power. The power of the wrist, again, is well exemplified in the speed with which we flick off a thistle head with a walking- cane; while that of the arms helps to contribute, al gn]|", the necessary weight and pith. These several subdivisions of power doubtless shade away, blending at the last into one harmonious whole, and driving will be good or the reverse, accord- ing to the accuracy with which they syn- chronize at the psychological moment— to wit, that of impact. How far the long drivers are indebted DIAGRAM OF THE ACTION IN DRIVING to physical advantages is a question not easy to answer. To the onlooker it would degrees, a quarter of a circle; secondly, appear, for instance, that Archie Simpson that the wrists being stiff, the arms alone, effects his purpose mainly by swift loin without assistance from the loins, will rotation accompanying a full and perfect carry the club head over a semicircle, and swing; Rolland, Mr. Tait and William thirdly, that without the full use of the Auchterlonie impress one by their grasp wrists and of loin rotation he cannot complete the circle. In the accompanying diagram let E represent the position of the player, that is the center of these re- spective circles, then I F T will represent the arc of the circle described by the club head, by means of loin rotation alone, K G L the semicircle made by the arms, and D C B A the full swing before hitting the ball, D Ai A representing the course of the club head in following on after the stroke. Now it would appear from the foregoing remarks that, roughly speaking, in the downward swing the club head travels from A to B chiefly under obedience to wrist impulse, from B to C to that of the wrists and arms, and from C to D to that of wrists, arms and the body, swung round by loins and hips. Each one of these dynamical processes, apart from the other two, is of considerable value as a motive agent; let any one stand with the feet twelve inches or so apart, and rotating the body from the hips upward, bring the right shoulder again to the front with all the speed of which he is capable, and he WRONG METHOD WITH LEFT FOO1 GOLF IN THEORY AND PRACTICE ceeded upon sufficiently scientific principles in their instructions. " Full of wise saws and modern instances," like "the Justice," they left too much t<> the imita- tive faculty, which in some is imperfectly developed. "Can ye no swing your club like Mr. Bruiser?" they would say, and the right answer would often be, "No, I can't, unless you show me how." The apple-faced sage with his nostrum for all, Dinna hurry the swing, keep your ee on the ball, he and other worthies ejusdem generis, reigned supreme. Excellent advice they gave, of course, but applicable rather to the fairly advanced player than to the absolute tyro and essentially lacking in explanation of fundamental principles. When her Majesty catches a raw recruit the first thing she teaches him is the use of his legs.

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