1954-05-15 — Page 17

YOUR WEEKLY GOLF ARTICLE

: THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1954.

Don't Be A Victim Of The "Hooks" For A Single Shot More

Says BERNARD HUNT

(Britain's Top Money Winner Of 1953)

Most amateur golfers scem to get the fault of slicing a long time before they ever run into their first spasm of hooking. Not makes the hook any more acceptable.

that

that

A ball hit into the rough on the left of the fairway can cost just as many And we come back to the old extra strokes as one cut away out to the right. truism that only the good straight shot is any real good in golf.

Whenever I have discussed the hooking problem with my father we have never been able to agree that any one fault is the root cause of the trouble. It is usually the accumulation of several flaws creeping in, one working in with another.

Very often the main cause of

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the club-face as it comes in on Lézer ball. Or, alternatively, LE can beenused by the wrists rolling at all and thereby bring- ing the club face on for the ball completely closed

Either

to drift tire Ja rond The

these doubtful swing which has bern aliwek the hook is the log-qitek roll et achievemetita rjem. from other the wrists

TILLISEN Particularly from a bod Hip. [ shut stance which

Your particular Jault may be brings the shoulders round and:

of these last us away from the true fine,

any wate 24

then ut! Through в среднове

check handl Jeff

which can grip allows the right to roll cum į very quickly there pletely

tor alarm about that impart, or

the important thing- aim all remedies In golf - DO NOT EXAGGERATE THEA

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Port Vale Is Close Second To Albion As

Team Of Season

By ARCHIE QUICK

Wigners of the FA Cup and runners-up in the First Division are records which must make West Bromwich Albion the team of the senson, but running them close for the honour is Por! Vale.

exaggerate a cure another faul

Do #RON

One l

I Feat you produce

TAKE CAREFUL, THOUGH

any is that a slight

What I

alteration of grip, the Dght

opening of the once, that prile bit more control with the left hom all that may be nece-

Don't

extrema

Apply a attle foreful !!!!&# and you will underpins ( quicky enough

Faults

Most of the hookin which have come to me nothe

That have been hond problem

is, the orthodox has tera merapi ped and the right fant has gone welt under the shaft Head the left hand correspondingly. Lon fur ver Thus kamosk

Not only did they gain promotion by the wide margin of eleven points from Barnsley, but they set up an all-time League record for any division by conceding to bring the club-head mis only twenty-one goals in forty-six games. The record at the palatial Vale Park is indeed impressive--not a defent In twenty-three matches and only five goals in their own net! No wonder goalkeeper Ray King has been chosen. for the FA tour of South East Europe.

Het wat a monent' Can vlog power King take all the vrelit and is

be a better keeper than Tai Ditchburn, for instance?

It was the Rock of Gibradar, defenders Muz unceremonious front

of him who contributeriā wall guinst

As much to the which opponents

None other

mavaliingly

hurled themselves.

Who

than

Steele.

says "

their manager Freddle

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remarkable achieve when 1114 remembers thai when Scott Duncan Join

them only two seasons

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before the lust War they were

In Bie Southern League.

The gainer electlim 10

the

to the ball with the face shut.

My remedy is afragile.

I say get back to the first and SIM- plest principles of the game and kelp the club naturally. Oddities T༣༢ ༣ : ol grip never pay off.

my clubs shinfi between palms of my hands and

Just grip it. The back of may eit hand is square to the hole and the pulm of my right faces

exactly the same way. pretty emily- ant

iercely--s t that

have hand control throughout the shet and 1 DR

ure it is the simplest and bet

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Third Division at the expense grip in the game

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bud Gillinghaun, have

pretty tough time since,

JA Next thing I've noticed about

but, the bonker is the closed stance,

after sixteen years, they have The fact that the ti

New

3 aut next to him at the dis-

realised their manager's chirish- arther forward than the right appointing West Bromwich-}

ambition.

players le not half as Important as the Preston Cup Final at Wembley

Ret that will be needed; ground alteru-

It has automaBraby surprising and he made this

brought the left shoulder fur observallon: "Not

tions are essential for u one of my

thee forward than the right var. players worth more tha

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£5,000 taken away from the casi of the learn." But the combination of eleven of them who gul to the send-Anal of the Cup as well should be sure Consolidating their Second Division status,

of

Town.

Not

Ipwicht 20 motored from Wembley to the Suffolk town for their promo- getchrooms in the even-

tion

ing,

were

and,

although: the flags oul unid there Wem

sprochen

of pride and cham-

ex

club

enulosure ban

of little capacity 22,000, and average "gutes" under 15,000.

cannot keep going to the higher That, exaggerated in any way, sphere with

can counjaletely alter the swing, Here again didn't think xaggerations or exETEICA can be a good thing. I think the

stance 50 are

The simple and grip is by far the best.

Northampton supphed Loc last opposition, und

strangely orthodox enough, their manger,

Bob Dennison, will Dr visiting Ipswich again next season the new inanager of Middles~ brough.

HAND POWER

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If you get these right 1 thing you will and the right balance

Wrong Grip

This is the beaker's grip. Notice how the righ! hand has shipped under the shaft and the left hand over it This brings the club on to the ball with the The simplest is the face closed ready for the hook,

best.

Correct Grip

This is my grip

in your wing more easily. If your you have tended to swing too bands. (barply inside the line on the way back, try taking the club | away a straighter path. When you have done that com- plete a free, full pivot and then strike well through the ball.

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the simplest and most serviceable in

the business.

thols with

both

your

Remember this It is you hand power which controls your golf power. And above all elicht never be put off by the that you

use "tou much righ hand. Your right hand is your pesor hand. Make full use rt it.

avar one by one and take your self on to the practice ground to try them out.

Better still, diseurs them with your pofesional and get hin to help you try them cui. i am have ertuin these points we made Arc simple. But the simplest thing can sometimes become the most difficult when yona are trying to work it out

yourself,

"Northampton finished second pagne for all, I think i delected to Bristol Rovers last season," a note of apprehension about

he said, "and scored 109 goals, Manager Scott Duncan's

but we did not average 12,000 marks. The

fact IN that

'gates' and I have always had Division Three Sruth was ft to sell one good player

4 509 poor section this

past season, son to keep going. Cross

had and, additionally, Ipswich are

to go after less than three battly off for reliable reserves,

I mentioned earlier the fault months You cannot build a REMARKABLE

of the loose left hand. We all promotion team that way." But recognise it. ACHIEVEMENT

But rather than he has still goi

So the thing to do is to con- on a man-sized stress t here I would Ipswich, like Port Vale, have

rather sider your faults methodically. But certainly don't be a victim Job on his hands at Middles- full membership

urge a better

and more and brough!

con Your grip. your

"hooks" stance, your of

for a single shot trolling grip throughout all swing, your pivot. Check them knger than is necessary.

gained

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