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Show Says Concentration and Determination Will Win There are women players who go up to the ball and putt without any hesitancy, says Cecil Leitch. The results are so good at times that it makes the ordinary mortal wonder whether she' ought to adopt a similar simi-lar casual manner, but in the long run a strong combination of deter-' deter-' initiation and concentration on the green will reap its reward. Speaking of my own experiences I am convinced that my mind is not on the task in hand half the time. I am endowed with a particularly keen sense of hearing and, when playing before a crowd, I constantly find myself my-self listening to whispered remarks when I should be concentrating to an extent which would make this eavesdropping impossible. I am constantly asked why I do not learn to putt, but few people realize how difficult it is to practice this part of the game. To my mind there is nothing simpler than to put approach putts stone dead and hole out with regularity from a reasonable reason-able distance when nothing is dependent depend-ent upon the result. It is a very different story in an important event, for then the yard putt is doubly difficult and the long approach putts become terrifying. |