1939-06-19 — Page 24

Taking The Club Back

By BEST BALL

Independent arm action in the back- swing should be avoided. Lifting the club up with the right arm creates a position at the top of the stroke that is not conducive to accuracy. For in- stance the right elbow is often forced too far away from the body. In the downswing this factor allows the club- head to swing far out from the body, coming onto the ball from the outside in. This method reduces the bodily power also for the pivot is reduced to a minimum, the body is left largely out of the picture and the muscles of the back, midsection and shoulders are not add their in a proper position to strength to the shot.

In the correct

the first to move.

swing, the body is

This occurs in the

left hip which starts turning to the

THE CHINA MAITANA

JUNE 19, 1989.

GRAPHIC GOLF Other People's Views

AVOID LIFTING CLUB WITH

RIGHT ARM

ALONE - ELBOW RAISED

BACKSWING

COORDINATE BODY TURN

OF CLUBHEAD WITH ARC

IN MAKING UPSWING

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Apart from Hagen and Bobby Jones, complaint. I was lucky to be hot during no one else ever made more than a fair the golden days of the tweenties and living at golf. I, myself, have no great

taken

right, a revolving tendency which is up by the straight left arm which pushes the club back and up in response to this body turning pressure. By this method the weight is trans- ferred to the right foot and the body gradually coiled for the downswing effort. By keeping the right arm comfortably close to the right side, the position at the top is one in which the downswing can be kept close to the

contact body and

the ball either straight ahead along the line of flight or slightly from the inside out. Fur- thermore there will be an abundance of power behind the blow.

Wednesday.Chipping Technique,

when I made it I salted it away. I'm complaining on behalf of my fellow professionals who haven't been so for- tunate and who are being so shame- lessly exploited to-day.--Gene Sarazen.

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It is to be noted that the West Indies batsman, G. Headley, is still compared by some to D. G. Bradman, and indeed, termed "the black Brad- sometimes man." This is foolish. There is little resemblance except that both are short- ish men apt to make more runs than the opposing bowlers and captains find con- venient. Great player as Headley is, he has not the steely, incorruptible cer- tainty of Bradman; their respective styles, too, are wholly different.-A writer in the Observer,

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