Max Faulkner On Golf SOME TRICKY POSITIONS & STROKE-SAVING ODDITIES
This week I am assuming that we know how to hit a golf ball, so I propose
to mention a few stroke-saving oddities I've learned the hard way..
For instance, have you ever used your putter from a bunker? I have-many a time! I know that most bunkers demand a full explosion shot, but very often it paya dividends to come out of those flat, lpless traps near the green by means of a simple straight tap with a putter.
it is altogether, wrong to think! ile, every
thint
obrinele between The very night of sand you and that hole. If the sand means a blaster. You have to is firm, after rain. for instance, weigh up every position, every and you can make the boll run
Sports Roundabout
Wales Ready
By W. Capel Kirby
Wales are ready to begin the International campaign with the side which earned them a share of the cham- pionship.
If Wally Barnes isn't fit most Aberdeen's likely stand-in is Dan Emery. schoolboy inter- national, who almost went non-League Rhyl player couch in the summer.
to
berth
the Villa centre-forward this season. Young Derrick Pace, Army XI star for two has been demobbed and itching to get into First Division
years,
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in, the putter can often do the Jub best-especially if you aren't much of an explosion specialist anyway.
It may be a rash geraliso- tion, but I do urge you to avold the tendency too many handi- cap players have of attempting to chip out of bunkers. 11 IN the hardest shot in golf. No pro ever thinks of attempting it, You shouldn't either. The ex- plosion shot is by far the sim- pleat.
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ON STONY GROUND
The golden rule for striking a
on hor all which rests slony ground is to be sure of hitting the ball first. If you hit the ground first, you will "top" the ball. You should strike the ball from just backward of centre of Your stance; you
then
And that only very rarely will
domogu you your club. That is the instinctive fear we all have, but it is seldom Justified. So play boldly. Try not to finch.
is
Will an
centre- TRISH International
forward Dave Waldı will have to be at his best to retain
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR Army Cricket
the
1951/52
football,
Don't be surprised if Leyton Orient part with centre-forward Tommy Harris. Although Brod- ford interest has cooled, other clubs are running the rule over the former Fulham winger.
Yorkshire's Billy Sutcliffe, completing his best-ever ReaGOTI with the bat, should go one beller than famous father Herbert, He may. eventually skipper the county.
One of the most difficult of all shots is the one you some- times have to play from a water hazard. The best way of, op- proaching such a shot is to follow the general principles for play. Ing out of sand.
Be sure tas aim for enough towards the back of the ball to let the club - hend get through the water and hit below the ball. The deeper the water the more you should open the face of the club. As in sand, it is vital to play firmly right through the
chot. This
Sir-During Cricket Season two Army teams compoted in the Senior League with none in the Second, coming Season however will be one Army XI in the First League and one in the Second.
there
1 understand there are appro- ximately 30,000 men serving in Hongkong, and surely one could expect the Army to field at least five terms of comparable ability to the majority of Senior local teams.
East has at last mld "Yes" to West. When the FA decided to stage an England. The World match at Wembley this season there were acubis about Iron countrie permitting
Curtain
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When you are hitting from a sloppy, muddy lie the vital thing is to hit the ball before the mud. Otherwise you merely run your clothes und squeeze the ball nowhere at all.
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their players to take part.
Now Russin, Hungary, Poland and the others have informed FIFA that they want their stars considered for the most star-. studded XI ever likely to grace"
A HEDGE BEHIND YOU a Stecer fteld. Already toned as probabies are Bobrov
Moat (Russia),
I know, have Mitic and Bobek (Yugoslavia) turtl Jeppson made a mess of those awkward (Sweden). World Cup winners shots when a tree or hedge or
cham-ralling ins
been interfering Uruguay and Olympic
with
backswing. plons Hungary expect to supply
I am four of the team between them.. not suggesting that these shots
easy. But they con much more effective than most of us make them.
The appearance of only опе team
appears ludicrous, expe- clally when one recalls the suc cess of the 33rd, Genert! Hoa- pital in the Inter-Unit League last season. This team, with only available. 17 possible players won the Minor Units League and then went on to defect the win- ners of the Senior Units League. One does not expect the Army side to be composed entirely of officers, it should include at least Ave or six other ranks. Kis this is not possible let us have ore team of officers and one of O.R.S
So come on, Army, let's have two in the First and one in the Second. Be Optimists, fear not the Scorpions, and we a go.
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Mungo Hutton, eight years Chelsea's Scottish scout, won't be lost to Soccer although he jhas severed connections with Stamford Bridge. The man players who want more than 20
Chelsea including Bobby Champbell and Syd Bathgate
wanted by other clubs. incidentally, inay Campbell, scen return to Scottish football.
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When hitting out of rough grass, the main object is to get the face of the club to the hall with as little interference as possible.
That is why I am positioned well forward, with my hands in front of the club-head which will come on to the ball from a steep downward arc. I am using a fairly steep-faced club.