The New Book on GolfHorace Gordon Hutchinson |
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ABE MITCHELL amateur championship arms attitude back swing Badminton beginner BERNARD DARWIN better body brassey bunker Cecil Leitch certainly Champion cleek club back club head course Darwin difficult distance driving easier elbow face fault feel feet finger finish follow-through forward full shot full swing golf golfers green grip half-shot Harry Vardon heel HEZLET hit the ball Hobble skirts hole Hoylake important iron club iron play iron player iron shot John Ball keep knee left foot Leitch loft MASHIE SHOT matter method mind movement Muirfield natural nearly never niblick North Berwick open championship open stance ordinary pitch possible Prestwick professional push-shot putting right foot right hand right shoulder round sand shaft slice spoon stand straight stroke style stymie take the club taken back thing thumb turf turn Vardon Vardon grip wind wooden club
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Page 172 - All this may seem plausible : but the best that can be said for it is, that it is an hypothesis that saves some difficulties; but there is no sort of proofs to make it appear to be true.
Page 45 - I consider to be the chief danger of the open stance is the tendency which undoubtedly exists to put the body into the stroke too soon. The body seems to want to get in almost as soon as the club begins the down-swing, and when the player is a little off his game it is constantly getting there before the club.
Page 6 - How is the grip to be tested for adherence during the swing?" is the real question, which the address ought to solve thus: Having placed himself opposite the ball, let the player take hold of his club loosely, but so that, if held short, the end of the shaft would pass under the wrist bones. Let him swing it backwards and forwards freely over the ball, describing an elongated eight, whose length is limited by the lockingpoint of the wrist joints. After two or three such continuous figures have been...
Page 297 - He did not pretend to be able to successfully contend with the wind, but only to deviate from the direct set of the wind when running before it...
Page 17 - It will, I hope, be already apparent what this Fundamental Shot is. It might be called a Half shot, seeing that it is played almost entirely with the arms ; body turn hardly enters into it at all. It constitutes the whole of a short pitch-and-run approach and forms the essential beginning of every longer stroke.
Page 343 - coffee,' then, there entered, to the relief of the young man, four strangers; but, before introducing these to notice, it may be as well to say a word or two about that gallant officer himself, for he is the true hero of this my story. Mr Arthur Wellesley Woolley was the only son of a London citizen, of credit as good as Gilpin's, though he was by no means of so much renown. Mr Arthur Wellesley Woolley was...
Page 90 - In playing an ordinary cleek shot, the turf is grazed before the ball in the usual manner; but to make this half or push shot perfectly, the sight should be directed to the centre of the ball, and the club should be brought directly on to it (exactly on the spot marked on the diagram on page 170). In this way the turf should be grazed for the first time an inch or two on the far side of the ball.
Page 265 - ... purpose, long, full-swinged drives and skilled shot-making on full-length links with no loss of modesty. Commenting on the progress made by women's golf in a relatively short time, May Hezlet, the Open and Irish champion on several occasions and a frequent writer on women's golf, remarked that: Even 20 years ago a woman walking in a London street, attired in short tweed coat and skirt, thick boots and carrying her bag of clubs, attracted much undesirable attention; but nowadays a whole team could...
Page 123 - The art of putting consists in hitting the ball with freedom, grace, and accuracy, in the middle of the club.
Page 11 - Having arrived at a definition of ' hit,' we may with propriety try to discover the exact meaning of the term swing. In the last paragraph it was said that, so far as either hand produces swing, the left does the work.