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Miss Adair's chapter will be found full of interest to every woman golfer. N. Y. Sun: "Direct and helpful, and her advice that of an expert who should be heeded." N, Y. Post and The Nation: "No woman player, however skillful, can fail to profit by a careful study of it. Admirably illustrated." The Reader Magazine: "Interesting and instructive, not only to beginners, but to old players as well. GOLF, 48 West 27th Street, New York City '•' .'• TENTH GREEN, EKWANOK COUNTRY CLUB, MANCHESTER, VT. MOUNT EQUINOX IN DISTANCE s; * & SL B.-*. I : . ' •!• 4 t .- *• * \ €, \\ GOLF WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894 VOL. XXVII AUGUST, 1910 No. 2 THE DRIVE By P. A. Vaile (Author of "Modern Golf") The English people have some very be content to deal with one thing at quaint characteristics. If one tells a time, so we may with advantage, in them anything they do not know they the first place, deal with the drive, immediately call it "theory." It may which is the stroke that every golfer, be the deadliest of deadly practice, but and very would-be golfer, is most if it should happen not to have been concerned about. included in the volumes of mouldy It is usual to start the beginner at thought which represent golf litera- golf with the drive. Of course, this ture in England—it is theory. is utterly unscientific, and in many The English sportsman is, I think, cases is an almost fatal error. It is much less inclined to worry out the putting the pupil on to Wagner be- reasons for his game than is the fore he knows his five-finger exer- American. He is too much inclined cises. The golf drive is perhaps the to borrow someone else's thoughts to most complicated and difficult stroke save using his own brains. The con- to play perfectly. Obviously, one sequence is that books on golf bear- should put the pupil to the easiest ing great names have been written by work first. He should be started at hack journalists, but the bare science the hole and backed to the tec instead of golf has really received very scant of starting on the tee and cutting the attention at the hands of those who country into strips. That, however, is should be best able to deal with it. by the way. We have to deal with Golfers have just accepted what has things as they are, and we must con- been written and rewritten about the sider the stroke that everyone is most game in the same manner, that much interested in. that is false is swallowed in England It is no wonder that the direction —because it is old. So it comes to of most golfers is so bad. If one pass that golf stands out to-day as stands behind a perfectly driven golf the best played and worst written of ball struck without spin it will be ob- British games. vious that the plane of its flight is an The fallacies and fetiches of golf imaginary sheet of, say, glass standing would fill a book. Ik- must, however, at a right angle to the horizon. It is Copyright, 1910, by AHTHUR POTTOW. ./// rights resetfed, THE DRIVE The natural result of a stroke played, as is the orthodox and accepted golf drive, is pulling or slicing. The stroke of the future will, I believe, be that drive which has a great amount of back-spin on it, commonly called the wind-cheater. This back-spin pro- duces a long carry and a beautiful flight, and the spin on the ball does not in any way affect its direction, for the plane of rotation coincides with the plane of flight. In simpler words, the ball is spinning on an axis that is at all times at a right angle to the imaginary sheet of glass before re- ferred to, namely, the plane of flight. In time to come it will be recog- nized that the golf swing is a much exaggerated action. It will be seen that all this circular swinging of the club-head in a plane clean outside of the plane in which it is required to do its business, tends to inaccuracy. So it will come to pass that the shorter swing with the downward blow will grow in favor. It is possible to get a tremendous carry with this stroke, and PLATE No. 1 the follow through is always straighter down the line to the hole than it is equally obvious, watching the head of with other strokes. This is a most the club, that it is in that plane for important point as regards direction, a very short space of time. In other for the great secret of good direction words, it is plain that in the great ma- is to send one's club-head down the jority of drives the golfer docs not line after one's ball as far as one can. follow the ball with his club-head down the line of intended flight so In dealing with the drive I am. of much as he ought to. course, taking it for granted that my The plane of the ball's flight is readers are well acquainted with the vertical. The plane of the circle de- general principles of the stroke as laid scribed by the club-head in driving is down in the books, most of which, in lying in towards and around the England at least, have been written by golfer at an angle of about fifty de- the same hack journalist. This puts grees. It follows that the circle of a critic in a most unfair position. the golf club's swing infringes but Much absolute idiocy has been fast- little on the plane of flight, and this ened on the greatest names in the naturally tends to produce inaccuracy. golfing world. It would be easy to THE DRIVE tear it to pieces. It would be wound- Kingdom. His wonderful work at the ing the feelings of very good fellows championship meeting at St. Andrews who are quite unable to retaliate, and recently, when he did three rounds in who are not responsible for the rub- an average of J2 2-3, if my memory bish, and so it goes on ruining peo- serves me, will not soon be forgotten. ple's game. It will be noticed that Duncan's hands are forward of the ball. This "press Most golf books gravely Inform one forward" just before taking the club- that the left heel remains in contact with the earth until the arms seem head away from the ball is an old to be dragging it away ; that it does trick of golfers.