Show I Ho How w To Master Ma s t e r Bad Golf Go GoLies Lies I I SANDY HERD GREATEST OF ALL HOLE IN TELLS HOW TO PLAY UPHIlL I AND DOWNHILL BY DY JOE WILLIAMS The t gamo amo mo of or golf golt knows know no more picturesque character than thel Sandy Herd oldest of or tho the contemporary Soot boot and one of or the most gIfted Nearing the sixties Herd I Is stilt stilla a formidable entry in any field a smiling gra bearol capable or of matching shots shot hot with any o of the current chaplon More Mono tan Inn 30 years yar ago Herd was up runner up In the British champion champion- championship championship ship Ten ear eari later at the ago age agoo or of 34 he h won the event for tor the first time tim In 1920 1020 at the th age ag of 2 62 he again seemed teemed to have hav the title cinched when hen George Gorec Duncan came along with one ono of his famous In In mounds lound 1 on and l edged him hini out outLast Last spring at the age of ot 55 lord Herd won on the Roehampton open one of or the th mot most Ins Ins- Im Important porton match play events on the theother theother other oIlier 5 de 40 beating boating among others Hay Bay Mitchell and ond ra lor Herd also 0 owns own ns the unique dis- dis dl of or having scored cored more holes In one on than any player pIa er In Inthe Inthe Inthe the hl history lory of or the th game a total ot of o 17 I James Braid with 11 to his credit l Is believed to be the th run run- run up ner-up In this respect Bad lies lie t t bother a golfer sas 84 av s 5 Herd Hord In In normal circumstances goodHe It is 10 I jut Just as aB a a good lie It To mot most player players a hanging hinging lie lieIs lieIs lieIs Is a positive terror It shouldn't be Your ball well we'll sa av Is resting on the th downside or of o a hill hlll It I is easy to top this kind of ot a shot hot be- be because because be because cause the th ball bail Is I lying tying low Here Her is how bow to correct comet that trouble Take Tak up your stance tance well behind the ball bali keep well ell down with Ith body and head lay the face ot of the club back or open and then follow the th lie of or the ih ground By this I mean m n toll follow ow the th down slope after the ball is hit lilt Don t I bling tile the lie club chub up In a a swooping motion as a If K you were playing IL a abill abill b bill teed up That a s what you probably probably probably ably hate hav ha e been doing in the pat past land that s why you topped your hanging lie lio shots limo Iho 1 be same sam logic applies to II a abail ball bail lying the opposite wa on the upsIde of or a 0 slope lop 1 lou ou tale talc much the same me stance tance only not so o far fr back of or the th ball bali and let the th club head follow the lie llo o of the ball bail winging swinging In an upward track this time Instead of ot a downward one |