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Rarely Has There Been
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954.
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more cheerless opening to the English cricket senn. miting conditions with drizzling
rain and
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DIDN'T FALL
Don't Be Afraid Of Wedge Shots, But Don't Expect Miracles
Says BERNARD HUNT
I have found that the wedge is either top favourite in the handicap golfer's bag or it is the bogey club which is always carried for effect but never used. In of it fnd 11 other words the chaps who have taken the trouble to get the hang invaluable; and the chaps who haven't are just scared of it.
But there is nothing to be scared of. It is an excellent club if used for the purpose for which it is designed. The trouble I have found with too many people is that they expect miracles from it. They expect to be able to bang the ball up to the pin, and make it stop, from all kinds of distances.
Expert wedge players ilke If you do address the ball
So don't be afraid of it. Get Bebby Locke or Charlie Ward with your hands well ahead of out there and try it out. Re- may be able to do long distance the ball-and club head and member to maintain a firm but trick shots with it; but I mun strike Banly down and through not rigid grip, keep those hands quite sure ordinary folk can't the ball to take a divot after ahead, got down and through In any case, if you watch cart impact you will find that the the ball crisply, and let the club fully, you won't see the manter chib will get the ball all do the work it is designed to do. men trying many "trick" shots right and you will be able to Your professional can put you either.
commanch back pin on the right in half an hour. Try it. ball, The club is designed for Too many people try to make just that purpose. the wedge hit the ball too far.
I am certain I should only be used for the accurate up-to-the- pin shot from between 30 and 40 yards-or less.
no Certainly
more.
If you get the hang of it from that sort of distance it can be the best weapon in the bug for rolling three shots into
two.
You must never try to "pick MERSEYSIDE
up" the ball with this club. Play down and through, and let the club do the "picking up.
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usually play my wedge, from about thirty yards, with my feet about six Inches apart and the ball appears to be about centred between my feet, Actually it is still off my left heel-for that is spot from which I play practically all my shots.
Grey Mist, ridden by Gabrielle Dare In the Children's Open jumping competition, seems to have caught its legs in the centre of one of the jumps, but she did not fall.
the The picture was taken at the Royal Windsor Horse Show held in the Home Park.---Central
Press Photo.
Six-Point Less
Plan For Tough National
The RSPCA have put their six-point plan to make the Grand National safer to Weatherbys, agents for the National Hunt Committee.
They wont lightening of, fences; and veterinary examina-
andtion. horses
for
he le 10 wickets. He is easily
▪t;" I wing SALLONS at the qualifications
no riders; lowering of top weights; far. There is
of the doubt he would make the Eng-alteration
be ht English between the start and the first fence: modification of certain
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MY BEST GOLF SHOT
distance Lord Dorchester, a member of the council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr Arthur Moss, the society's chief secretary, made these representations ut Weatherbys' London offices
A "Stroke In A Million' Helped Cotton To A Title
By JAMES GOODFELLOW
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Ryder Cup captain Henry Cotton considers he played one of the greatest-ever shots in golf shot million-while winning the first of his three Open Championships. at Sandwich.
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The meeting followed protests after this year's race, in which four horses died,
THE FUTURE
But let's be just as straight end say that nobody can export to go into the pro's shop, buy a wedge, and go straight out and
MOTOR RACING BID
Present indications that Liverpool will
on May 29,
nrø
3000
was held
joy the ball stiff by the pin It 1 grip the club taurly firmly-emerge as a major European motor racing centre. Near- is the sort of club which de- rands quite a lot of attentionke to feel in complete com
mand-judge my distance anding completion is the new and understanding before it will then, with Д reasonable three-mile track at Aintree perform. But don't be scared shoulder turn, strike
firmly on which the first inter- about that. Any
average through the ball. The big thing national meeting handicap player can handle it.
Is never to be afraid of the shot. But I do suggest you should start with my hands ahead of know the clubhead and keep them not expect miracles. 1 we have all seen films where ahead right through the stroke. the Amerienn boys pitch the minimise my wrist action as ball an to the green and make much as possible but sull get it drop beyond the pin, spin through the ball with life and back and settie neatly by the crispness. cup. You just will not gel that sort of thing in England. We don't have that kind of heavily watered green.
MORE THAN A PUSH
This is a shot which must You can put check spin on the never be allowed to get "sloppy". ball just as well as the Ameri- The crisper you can clip into, cans but on our greens you will and through, the ball the better, sull have to judge the bounce As I go through I make a parti- in front of the pin and allow cutar point of trying to keep the enough room for the ball to clubhead following through low pull up. But that is all common after the ball. That avolds any pense. Let's get down to the tendency to pick the ball up and business of using the club. makes the club do its job.
PLAY DOWN AND TIKROUGA
back
wedge
Experts claim that this will be the best equipped track in Britain, I noi in Europe. Based on the Ministry of Transport the design for Claes roads, course's long strights and slight gradients will permit maximum speeds of at least 150 m.p.h. Top speeds there will probably be faster than any yet achieved In Britain.
Its contours
follow closely the route taken by the Grand accom- National Course, with modation for 200,000 spectators already lald
on. The start,
finish and progress of the races throughout will be seen in com- Tort from the racecourse stands.
and
When you have got the right
There is a pedestrian tunnol under the track and the latest feel of this shot you will find that the ball will fly with less safety measures, which include First-never lay the
height than a number eight but concrete retaining walls It is to open the face.
that it will be better controlled crash barriers, not that kind of club. If you In Bight and will have definite examine it carefully you will checking power on the greens. In addition to two top-class note that the straight leading Some people say the wedge shot international road race meetings edge is set well off the ground, is a push. In many ways that after the close of the hurdling and unless you strike with you describes the general actiori very
season, is planned to have elther one or two main inter- The Horse-Presunt qualifica- hands in front of the bail and well-for those hands must keep don which holds good for it with the steep face in what ahead of the clubhead right national meetings here during and normally would be thought a through--but it is really some- the season. The May event has place in an over- £300
closed position you will be in thing much crisper and bolder already been officially placed on over-3 m. race-should be re- viewed annually or every other trouble.
than is suggested by a push. the international calendar, year.
Some of the society's sugges- tions were!
The Jockey.He should have of 07 at soft sand and become unplay-ridden "at least five to ten win- "My first round Sandwich had put me in the able.
ners in the past two or three Cotton, seasons. second I Irad mal in the three under fours after seven, hales, when I had a shock," he recalls.
"At the 190 yards eighth
(Hades), my No. 2 iron
shot
from the tee was pushed out and the ball vunished into deep bunker.
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"A white spot was just show- ing in the top of the turf face. The ball was plugged.
THE PROBLEM
"I kept
on saying. look at the bail, look at it.'
"The shot came off, the ball finishing within six yards of the pin, and I got a 4. My round was completed in 65, which virtually gave me the champion- ship."
The Fences.-The society quoted "an experienced rider over the course" who suggested that the fenco After Becher's Brook and the one before the Canal Turn might be altered or even removed,
Cellon's favourite shot 1s The Weight-"A top weight playing into the wind. In Open of 12st. Is enough to ask any Championships, when stormy horse to carry at racing pace conditions have baßed others, over Aintree. By lowering the he has shown himself the top weight the chances of the master,
more lightly weighted animals shot with the are automatically reduced, and "to fight the thus some owners would hesitate to enter Indiferent
"My difficulty was to get near enough to the ball to pluy it at hip level. Danger was that if
He plays the the shot did not come off, the hands forward ball might trickle into the huge | ball down." footprints I had made
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