Show 0 CA OW good a sw swinger Is sammy A snead compared to the best of an all t time ime snead has yet to win a national crown and yet many including bobby jones pick the west virginian as one of the top stylists sty lists e th the e first scotchman socked a rock with a shepherds crook and complained of 0 the greens S snead d may b be e the dream ream swinger to many but he to jimm jammie le donald I 1 bon 0 n a an able stylist Grantlan dRice f of f bis i if s own and one of I 1 the he top op instructors of the game in rating snead as highly as we have ji m ale thinks your correspondent spon dent clent Is a trifle curious in the cupola cupol a as s follows an expert disagrees dear grant i I 1 happened d to see your article ab about e sammy snead how a man 9 lik like e you who has jiin seen as much gou golf as you yo u have can compare sammy sneads swing which has a decided loop which is preventing him from winning whining big tournaments with a great swing like harry bardona Var dona baffles me what what do you yon mean about hagen and J el taylor being swingers they certainly were not swingers but decided hitters and it if you are writing on the subject of swingers how can you possibly overlook byron nelson who I 1 personally think is a m much uch better swinger and better gro grooved oved than snead has been last two years M to the layman your article might might y a appeal but to someone me like myself who knows a little about it it it is really tunny funny sincerely yours jimmie donaldson and in rebuttal dear jimmie I 1 know of few golfers who swing swin 9 a golf club better than you door few who know as much about the old game go ML but I 1 cant agree with wl th J you about S sammy ammy snead you say ay he ha has s a loop in his swing so did bobby bobb Y jones J ones do you know a better swinger yet only a few days ago bobby jones told me th that at in his opinion snead had the best all around swing with every club that lie he had ever seen and bob played with will vardon as far back as 1920 bobby jones was referring to the f physical makeup of sneads swing not to his bis mental attitude in a championship pion ship snead gets amazing results with little show of effort of extra effort 6 sneads downfall has never been due to any fault in his swing only to his inability to concentrate only to his bis mental attitude whir which h as you know Is 70 per cent of golf I 1 played with bobby jones tour four days ago and he be had bad a 65 I 1 still got a thrill from the slow smooth or y beauty of his swing bob still in fists that snead is the top the difference is that bobby could abw always ays concentrate and keep heep fult full control of his mental and nerve resources 1 snead cant yet remember this in his last four big tournaments snead has won three and reached the final hole against nelson in the last P G A I 1 have seen snead hit many a golf ball but I 1 have yet to see any Ido decided cidO loop hagen and nelson continuing our correspondence I 1 bate ate to disagree with an expert of your rank ank but to my mind walter hagen is a better swinger than most hagen in his prime was one of the ideal swingers with his stocky build is in more ore of a hitter than a swinger we agree here sara en think snead has any loop but he is afraid a snead is getting a trifle flat V in his bis back swing r the greatest fault in golf today says As for swingers swin gershow how about henry picard winning temperament no but a great golfer and a great swinger snead has had bad a better fawe or four year record than macdonald smith did you ever see a finer swinger than mac smith yet mac smith through 25 5 years never won a national title here bere was the great crime of all golf mao ma 0 smith with the golfing temperament tempera 1 of walter hagen or byron nelson would have won wan at least six championships imagine sammy snead with the mental attitude of it a hagen or a nelson Nel or the tremendous concentration of a B bobby jones even eve n as it is I 1 bellev believe e sammy S snead nead will still astonish the world of golf watch himl swing still secondary if 11 you are thinking in terms term of swingers ra ill give you yon my list bobby jones harry vardon sammy walter hagen mao mac smith henry picard and paul bunyan banyan it also so happens that winning championship pion ship golf belongs even more moie in the be heart artland and abo above he shoulders than ban it does docs in the he technique of of any swing j what about byron nelson one of our best through many years net nel son is lagood swinger who once in a while gets his left wrist tied up |