The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-12


lance as with the longer shafts. Our sue
cess has caused nearly all the golfers in
England to copy after our style of play
ing
CLUBS CUT OFF.
: 1.-The old school of shafts are made long
and the golfers are taught to grip lower
down on the shaft and allow two. or three
inches of the club to protrude beyond the
left hand. This, 1 argue, is an absolute
waste and I have shortened the shafts
SO that my left hand sets flush with the
end of the club. The fact is, the grip OF
the club is precisely the same, only
have cut off the two or three inches or
protruding club. The difference is little,
but the average golfer merely sees that
the club is shorter and fmag1nes that a
revelation has taken place, for, instead
of taking his usual grip, which would
bring him back to the end of the ciuo.
he gets himself out of plumb by trying
to grip the shortened club and still leave
from two tc three inches protrude as his
forefathers had done in the days OF yofe
my object is to do away with the car
rying of useless wood, which accom-
plished by shortening the club, and at the
same time get better command OF the
ball.
Another old time theory which we ig-
more, 1 mean Taylor and myself, is the
practice of holding the left fingers firmly
and the right loosely, as 1t only tends TO
Wildness in direction. I believe in hrm
grip at all times
by the overlapping grip have already
mentioned there is no identity OF either
the right or left hand, and the two act
as one. In gripping the left thumb is
straight down the shaft under the right
&l,a ,-;erhf
straight g With every part of two hands
gripped firmly as one, there is no such
thing as the one hand working against
the other so I am sure to get accuracy
in direction. If my hands were apart and
eripped in the ordinary way>I might gain
ten yards or SO in distance, but the ball
more than likely would be sliced or pulled
all over the course, as / have proven this
point to my satisfaction in practice, when
/ often try the results of such expert
ments. In playing match, however, /
give my undivided attention to the task
1 have to perform
BOX OF CLUBS.
Vardon opened his box of clubs. There
were thirteen in the set; two drivers, one
brassey, two driving mashies, two cleeks,
one a special club of his own with
somewhat deep face, like that on the driv-
ing mashie; two lofters, two putters, and
a mashie and niblick. One putter was a
goose-neck, the other an ordinary putting
cleek. Vardon uses the putting c.eek for
approach puts. One lofter and the n blick
had corrugated faces.
| Looking proudly at his clubs, Vardon
| said There is a shaft in that driver
slightly sprung. but have had that shaft
| for ten years, and no matter what kind
| of head 1 put on it, can play with it
| just the same"
1t was remarked that his irons We're of
no special brand, but, like Job lot, were
| of many different makes.
Vardon smiled pleasantly, in quiet
unassuming manner, as he replied that
| the ten iron clubs were the pick of over
500 hundred clubs which he had tho; ough-
| ly tested.
81 have had my goose-neck putter for
three years, and 1t has been of great as
sistance to me In winning two open cham
| pionships. Here is lofter,' said Vardon.
that prize highly, and it is not only
frst-class club, but present from W.