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Show Graphic Golf I ' 1 6t V ' V OU1MET t SAWD I ifi H TRAP PRACTICE TROUBLE SHOTS FRANCIS OUIMET, one of the best known exponents of recovery re-covery shots, thinks a practice sand trap would be a helpful addition to most courses. Those extra strokes that the average golfer takes in getting get-ting out of trouble are, according to Ouimet, the cause of aigh scores. A sand trap usually frightens such a player out of any semblance of a sound stroke. Sometimes he experiments ex-periments with a shot he thinks would work and finds it will not Generally the safest and most used method is the explosion shot Ouimet Is an expert at this phase of the game and more than once has blasted blast-ed opponents' hopes by a perfect blast from the bunker ttat on occasions oc-casions landed the ball Into the cup In the explosion shot the club-head club-head does not touch the Call It is lifted out by the force of the club-head club-head as it cuts through the sand beneath it. The Important thing is to hit well behind the ball so that the danger of driving the ball into the sand will be eliminated . 1033. Bell SyndlcataWNU Service |