Show or THE pHE duller duffer in golf meaning golf meaning the millions who shoot between 90 and may may soon see new light through the darkness lie He may come upon better days if instructive plans now set up by the work prop erly In past years the duller duffer or aVerage average average aver aver- age golfer goUer has developed swing ln r digestion digesti n from too many complex In mixtures One teacher would tell him to do this and another would tell him not to do that until his mental mental men men- tal tat picture was all aU badly blurred At least this is the belief belief be be- lief of a number of Instructors Grantland Grantland Rice Bice including Lou Scott I and Joe Novak who know their trade After more mord than 20 years ears of teaching teach teach- big ing the young and old how bow not to slice or hook or top or or flub Lou Scott the Lakeside veteran has a anew anew anew new and helpful angle to present This Idea consists largely In wiping out oat all the old slogans the old max max- Ime and such that have baffled the golfer for so man many scoring high years ears Things Thing to Forget We must first cl clear ar up the golfers golfer's golf goll- golfers golfer's goller's ers er's mental blur Scott says He has been given too many things to think about and to work on We have finally discovered that golf goU instruction instruction instruction tion must be simplified Craig Wood and others have been working on this idea in Florida We have been working on it along the Pacific coast Now here are the old slogans or forms that must be wiped out that out that must be forgotten forgotten- 1 To keep your eye on the ball 2 The straight left arm 3 Any part of 4 The body pivot 5 Swinging from Inside out oot 6 Weight transference from one foot to the other 7 Cocking the wrists 8 the wrists at a certain spot on the downswing 9 The upright swing 10 The flat Oat swing 11 Foot work These things may be part of a good golf goll swing Lou Scott says but who can put a saw jig-saw puzzle together in hi the second or so needed to start and finish a swing It just cant can't be done So they all must be eliminated to give the golfer a anew anew anew new and fresh start in picking up the few fundamental things required for lower scoring The Next Step We will now instructor Scott continued take it for granted that the golfing brain or mind has been cleared of all the old obstructions mentioned before What is the next move Starting with a fresh slant the first move must turn to the work of hands and wrists swinging swinging swinging swing swing- ing the You must know what your hands are doing what your wrists and arms all working together are doing doing do do- ing in relation to the head of the club Only the hands touch the club and only the l touches the ball For one thing the golfer must pay more attention to the pace of his The natural tenI tendency tendency ten ten- I dency is to think only of hitting the ball bail to think largely of the down down- swing But after a bad there can can-be no such thing as a good downswing unless an accident or a miracle happens Take a comfortable stance unlock un un- lock those feet and legs and swing the the- smoothly back bacH in hi a natural way If you do this the body will wm turn with the swing and the foot weight will handle itself If you throw a baseball base you will find that the weight first goes to the to-the the right legand leg legand legand and then moves back to the left leg But you dont don't have to think about this when throwing a ball It is a 0 natural move It should b. b b the same in golf Main Uain Faults What are the main faults among average average golfers The first starts with tension The average golfer goUer I Ihas has no swing he be can trust he is trying to think about too many things so he tightens up from feet to neck The first result is usually a barred bar har harried red ried This in turn leads to a hurried Jerky downswing and to bead head lifting This will rarely happen happen happen hap hap- pen with a smooth even where the hands bands are In control There must of course couse be a firm left 1 l' l nd nd and a 0 firm left arm But that doesn't mean r tightened straight left arm arm Golf GoU is a two-handed two game but to most people it is strictly a 0 one hand ed game with the stronger right band hand in control But the left hand must do its full lull share with the right We all realize reaUze now that the golf swing and golf instruction must be simplified The golfer must be given given given en only one or two fundamental things to think about He cant can't be expected to operate a saw Jig-saw puzzle in about two seconds and ma make e aUthe all aU anthe the pieces fit tIt But if he can get working operation co-operation between hands and he will at least be on bis biJ way to a much better game |