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Show Failure to Let Clubhead Give Loft to Ball Causes Topping By ART ERENZ NEA Service Golf Writer Were It not for a lucky break on the ninth hole during; the first round of the 1830 open played at the Inlerlachen Country club in Minneapolis, Bobby Jonee might not hava scored Mi golfing grand fjy 5WA XVal j ON A T i WOOD 5M3T lv OFF ne. Vats iffwAy. Km. Jones wa two strokes ahead of Maconald Smith when he topped hla spoon sscond Into the middle of a big lily pond. It looked as a? his valuable two-stroke lead' would be erased. But a th ball hit th water It kipped like a flat atone, bopped out onto the fairway and slopped 30 yard short of th green. Jones chipped close enough to get down In one putt and registered a birdie four that easily might have been a seven. Jones finished ths tournament In 247. Topped' shots from fairway Ilea ar often cauaed by the player attempt to lift the ball with an action ef the hands and arms, rather than depending en the loft of the clubhead to do tha work. When this foreign action tskes place In the downswing ths right shouldsr Is dropped and th clubhead club-head catchea th ball after It already has started its upward swing. Swing through on wood shot off the fairway, attempting to make th clubhead follow the contour of the ground for a few Inche before and after th ball U struck. |