GOLF MUSEUM and LIBRARY United States Golf Association
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THE GOLF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY United States Golf Association Donated through the kindness of Charles H. Davis III MARCH 1910 NEW YCTHK Winter Golf on America's Riviera. Season 1910. All the famous hotels of the FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL SYSTEM are now open. St. Augustine, - HOTELS PONCE DE LEON and ALCAZAR, St. Augustine Golf Club, Willie Anderson, Professional. Ormond, HOTEL ORMOND-ON-HALIFAX, Ormond Golf Club, Geo. Merritt, Professional. Palm Beach, HOTELS ROYAL POINCIANA and BREAKERS, Palm Beach Golf Club, Arthur Fenn, Professional. Miami, • HOTEL ROYAL PALM, Miami Golf Club, Charlie Thom, Professional. Nassau,Bahamas, HOTEL COLONIAL, Nassau Golf Club, J. H. Norton, Professional. CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS on the beautiful 18 hole course at Palm Beach. Wednesday, February 2nd, 1910, Lake Worth Tournament. Monday, February 14th, 1910, South Florida Championship. Wednesday, February 23rd, 1910, Women's Championship of South Florida. 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Part X ( continued ) one details (in the playing of a cer- tain shot which might come hut mice In the January issue I explained in a game, not to mention the fact the action of a golf ball when in mo- that one's mind is generally so ab- tion traveling in a curved course over sorbed in the match itself that it a perfectly level stretch of putting would he a wonder if any player green for the purpose of circumvent- could play any stroke by sheer mem- ing a stymie. I also explained that ory of its various points. No; we this same action of the ball can he must build up our games so that we made use of to great advantage in play as much as possible by instinct. negotiating putts across the slope of /. i\, the points of a stroke are com- greens having a general slope to one pletely understood (not memorized, side. but understood), and one acts on it In the February issue I explained more or less instinctively. I say this why the peculiar rotary action should partly in apology for what might ap- cause a hall to curve on level ground pear a long drawing out of details or fight the influence of a side slope. in my writings. But really I have to Now I shall endeavor to explain forestall a multitude of questions. how to play the stroke. The readers of this magazine are I tackle golf problems in this way many, and though an explanation put because my experience in teaching- in one way may carry the point to golf has shown me that the only truly many, it may not make the problem successful method for imparting clear to all. I am therefore of knowledge is to convey a correct necessity compelled to make every de- understanding of every detail con- tail as clear as words will serve me. nected with a problem. To write I think 1 have made matters suffi- out a lot of stuff to be memorized is ciently clear in this present problem to waste so much ink. Mow can we so far as we have gone, to tackle the expect to remember a hundred and next point, how to handle the club Copyright, 1910, by ARTHUS POTTOW. .-)// rights reserved. [34 A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN a course having its imaginary axis at a slope of 40 degrees from the per- pendicular, The ball is to travel twenty feet, so we must impart a cer- tain amount of forward momentum to the ball. To impart forward mo- mentum to the ball, the club head must be swung in a course forward to a certain extent, but we also have to impart a somewhat lateral rotary action to the ball. To do this the club head must strike the ball a lat- eral glancing blow t<> produce the lateral rotation, and in this particular case the putter head should travel in a cour>e crossing the line of play from outside the line of play before impact to inside the line of play after impact. In other words, the putter head should be swung from a point well out away from the right toe, to a point at the finish of the stroke very- No. 1 close to the left toe, and during the to produce the desired results. (If moment of impact the putter face there Lie any doubt as to my meaning should be facing well out to the right in any of these articles, write me.) of the direct line to the hole, because, For the present I will deal with play- when the putter face strikes the ball ing a ball to travel in a curved course a more 1 ir less lateral glancing blow on level ground and first take "a in this manner, the direction in which curve to the left." To play a ball to the putter head travels exercises an curve to the left, the ball must be influence over the ball's direction of made to rotate in a somewhat lateral departure in spite of the direction in course, rotating in a manner so that which the putter face faces. The the side of the ball nearest to the lateral glancing blow of the putter player's feet (right-hand player) head executes a drag on the ball turns in the direction towards the which causes the ball to depart some- hole, while the opposite side turns in what in the direction in which the the direction from the hole; at the club head is traveling, in spite of the same time the upper pole of the direction in which the putter face imaginary axis of the ball's rotary faces. To explain still more clearly action must be leaning from the play- if the putter head be held facing ab- er at an angle most suitable for the solutely at right angles to the line of production of the desired curve. For the putt and the club head be swung tlie sake of example we will say we in a course crossing the line of the are going to play the ball to rotate in putt, crossing for instance, as before A ROUND OF GOLF WITH SEYMOUR DUNN mentioned, from outside the line of but to see Hen Sayers, senior, putt, the putt before impact to inside after with the side on the ball, it looks impact and traveling across the line like nothing at all, yet at every putt of the putt at an angle of say 25 de- he (as well as all other professionals grees from the line of the putt, the who play the stroke) goes through ball will start off in a direction some- the whole business just as I have de- what to the left of the hole, in spite scribed it, though I admit to watch of the fact that the putter face is them doing it one would not think so, facing true towards the hole.