Show ep Or of S f i ide ee AJ A ff M J RICE COP Copyright rIght 1924 New ew York Tribune line une lee Inc An average duffer one of ot the million was liS complaining bitterly to us about hi his somber fate a da day or t two 0 00 ago I 1 I can t understand It It ho he said I kno know Im I'm no wonder but I also know kno I can hit a pre pret fair ball ballI ballI I seem to playa play a lot o 0 my strokes as well sell as 59 other fello fellows fellow's fellow i around 9 90 O end and vet et at I cant can't break to save ave my life I can t dope It out ou ou There Is a parade of countless thousands in this class It so hap hap- happened happened hap happened that wo io 0 had s several veral times time with the first speaker and so knew part of the answer er Pos Pos- Possibly Pos Pos- Possibly Possibly sibly most of It It lIe He was as right rhU In InmAny mAny as He will hit nany many good drIves Ho lie will play nore than a afew afew afew few pretty prett good Now ow and then hell he 11 II get down a rood putt But he can t breaK Here Is one ono of the reasons The referred to hit a fairly good drive on the first hole HIs Ula was also fair Ho He ws 10 1 bill short of the green on a 38 yard yard hole HIs third shot was as a t trifle too strong and just trickleD o ov 0 e ei the green into a trap He seemed to have had a 0 5 6 sowed sewed up But once In the trap he hacked away way twIce finally emerged on his third sal wal wallop ai- ai lop and then took three puts put's put Re- Re Re Result a suIt sult a 9 In place of a 6 5 On un- un unfortunate un unfortunate fortunate fortunat stroke had cost him hire tour four moro more One error hail had almost dou- dou doubled doubled dou doubled bled the score he ha should have had This scene acene was rep repeated several times time One m a mistake mistake a pitch too Short or a n pitch too whore strong strong there wa was sand and around was wag usual usual- usually ly iy paid for tor by Ly se everal eral extra strokes stroke We Wo recall one round I where here Wal Vol Wal- Wal Walor Walter ter or Hagen at Pinehurst made near near- nearly nearly nearly ly 20 Ht et mistakes let sot got ot a 72 12 By mistakes we mean menn hooking 01 ot slicIng slicing ing leg to the tho rough reaching traps being short or over on 1 o He came clime from se several eral traps trapi o othree othree three or four feet of the cue CUD to get got do down n In one putt He wa able to 10 recover from the rough al- al almost almost al almost most as It If It were If It he was or over he would chip back dead de td But when the tho average golfer goiter gets In traps or other trou trou- troubles troubles bles hIss It is an entirely different mat mat- matter matter ter He lIe can see sea In ad advance a tic tic battle with the sand rand He Ho knovs know by melancholy cup how his hie hl scores hll have hae I risen her here hera before Is Isho be We W V lIsay ay ho he Is i And when he ho sees the tho all oU nestling In a 0 rut or a heel prin as It often does ho he fears the tho I The result Is certain In the first place he begins by gripping the niblick with Ith the grip Ip of ot doom In the Second place feeling the need of extra power to explode the ball out be S swings SIngs Ings back too hur- hur hur and then sways swa s In with the body That tee feeling ling of ot extra goes through his entire There Is no snap left to his no timing left to the droke He chugs down With the nib nib- niblick nib niblick lick blade and the rigidity O ot or his hi wristS or the advance of his body stop stops the club head as asIt asit asIt It enters the sand This Is repeat repeat- repeated repeated ed ro two or three times Ume before borne bome wild swing finally gets the ball out The bunker above e oil nil other places Is the tho ideal deal for formental formental formental mental poise pole The first move I is isto lito to get the feet well planted In the sand so there will Ill be o 10 0 subsequent uba- uba quent skidding 0 or sinking or slip slip- slipping pin ping The next roOI move root roO a I Is to a spot In the sand sand Just back of the ball baU Thai Thel e must be no feeling of hurried ItIs ItI effort of oer ov 0 er tn in- in In It I is better to gilp gLip the club a 0 trifle lighter than normally to Insure more play tor for the tho wrists Loosen the grip And then wing fwing hack back without rush or hurry hurr being sure to s swing sIng Ing on through user uter the ball baU without stopping slopping the club head beadI his hia Is the advice that Walter Ha- Ha Hagen Hagee Ha gen gee better gh gives es and there here is none nono bet bet- bet ter at emerging from front trouble Whatever happens happen lont Jont jab or etab tab and stop the tho club lead ead In the sand Your Tour niblick Is no supposed ed Id to 10 be an The The ml mistake uke so many golfers rs make says Hagen is gripping t trouble troubie o tightly when thy they hey ire tre In trou- trou trou ble bie and tr tring Ing too hard Tr Trouble uble Is the place to use les less effort In- In Instead instead In Instead stead temptation of ot more since the tempt tion Is all the other I wa a It Is i necessary In playing n frn th the Dand to have free tree ph pla for tor the wrists They must haie hae a 0 lot of snap at atthe the right place They ran can ha hate haie s no snap at all when the Is like II a ise Ise and the body boy Is swaying In ahead of the stroke Keep I the head and body still sUlI Let the arms and wrists do most ot of the work ork all o lalli the w lists 1st A And nd don t hurry and dont don't over try Naturally the first step In this attitude must be a me mental atti- atti atti tude that isn t or taut There must be serenity and deter deter- determination determination determination This Is r to write than it is to follow tollow Yet It 1 Is a 0 thing There TheN can be no even bya byn well timed stroke directed by n a fluttering Upset mind Keep the bOdy out as much as aa possible and ond dont don't try to lift all the sand band In Ina ll Lie bunKer over the top We Wa will sill ne neer never er forget forret the cool cool even unhurried way Ie Jery ry Tra Tr ors era played Bal three bunker shots hots at Bal Bal- when he won the Open 1 They hey all came at Ihl moments on the thelast last round Yet ha us went about playing them with the he ease and iA- iA I and ad unworried look of otono one Until pl ln a short hort chip shot Un- Un Un til Iii the tha enge golfer an an handle himself in la trouble bette betle his score will always be bo high When one mistake can cati keep three or four strokes he ho will n naver er get gel his count do down don n where whore it should 1 be An error oror ought to cost one stroke no nomore nomore nomore more And the trouble shot la le often otten just as simple as s an other It if attitude faced with th the right mental at- at at and handled as a ye- ye re recovery cover covery stroke Never mind the 00 |