Show I Practice Makes I I Golf o Perfect YOU YOU CANT CAN'T PA PRACTICE R CT CE TOO MUCH MUC D fl D Last of 12 Instructive articles By BYRON NELSON Master of the Masters There is no easy way to golf success Its It's a tough laborious job involving practice and more practice There are short short cuts cuts and aids which a professional can Impart to a student but unless he works on them he might as well grabany grabany grab grabany any club hold it any way and just hack his way around Practice is not pleasant Few I find as much enjoyment in hitting hitting hitting hit hit- hitI I ting balls as they do in playing playing playing play play- ing 18 holes But the idea that you learn as you play is bunk You must concentrate on the vari various various vari-I vari ous shots The first thing I do when a pupil pupil pupil pu pu- I pil comes to me is to take him over on the putting green Then we move back from there The tee comes last Learn putting first Then master master master mas mas- ter those essential short chips You may be a low 80 shooter without without without with with- out ever having mastered the driving driving driving ing game Golf involves a grooved natural swing Obviously in touring a course shooting over hazards behind behind behind be be- hind trees and from bad lies you cannot groove a swing Get a bucket of balls and work on a few clubs at a time First learn what to do and how to do it Then do it often enough so that it becomes natural |