Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-07-25
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Telling Drive
JOLT EXPERT GOES INTO THE
THEORY OF SHOTS ON
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ne ART OF OrlNlnp long DllI 'Hes
full many fathom deep In the
boundless desire Of every goll player
Proud philosophy cannot teach tae
much-coveted art, and few who enter
with zest and energy upon the quest
arc endowed with the natural gifts
OF patient character and physical
courage 70 pursue the acquiaitlon 20
the end of assured attainment. If the
art Of driving a golf ball says wrii
err In The Field, to relatively fair
distance at every stroke Of the club
could be impaired either to the learn
or or to the trained golfer by reading
The theories of those players who
have established IN admitted rcputa.
ton for long driving, II would be true
enough TO say that the art would lose
more than hall o. rs "nchGntmGnt.
The nrdor NJ enthusiasm to learn
the art wou'l be rudCly guenched.
and no golfer, whether long or short
iriyCr. would carc TO por'urU his wgF.
iuc ana sleeping moments by devils
ing methods OF salipe r'pctiCn ~ The
most fascinating OF nil The golfing &C.
compliments.
What had become common heri.
tage OF every player would be con.
demned MS worthless acquisition, on
the well known principle Of all human
ambition that when once thing IL
possessed and desire Is satisfied there
Is tendency to feel that the want
Of thing is perpieNing enough. but
the possession Of Il Is intorlerable.
But fortunately fol the perennial in.
tercst attaching to the game. what Is
| wrongly described as the secret" Of
long driving cannot BE- impaired al
least by the written word IF the long
est drivers the worll Of golf has yet
seen march across its horizon.
Father Impossible.
| One may as well forbid the noun.
tain pines to wag their high tops as
attempt to satisfy the boundless dc.
sire Of every player to become long
driver by revealing the alleged "se'
cret' that there Is either one way or
many settled ways in which the mas
ter passion may be satisfied.
Like the search for the-.sffosoph'
er's stone, the art SS1ong driving is
too elusive, too ti1tiicult to catalogue
1
fulness to ne great army of players
when the effort is made to impart
"the secrets" in a number Of loosely
reasoned precepts, which serve more
to darken counsel than to hold up q
lighted lamp OF truth in the rough
and channelled path OF error
What is the theoretical basis of the
drive? 1t is to impart the creates,
|amount OF underspin to the ball which
the combined skill and strength OF
the player can produce. It has been
scientifically demonstrated over and
over again by actual driving expert
ments that the length Of carry Of Q
lgolf ball is in the ratio of the less OF
more underspin impaired in the tee
shot by the player.
How Is that rotary motion acquired
by the ball and what are the best
means to impart It? The ball re
lceives underspin by being struck be
low the level of its centre, and In
scientific theory. as well as in oc
casional practice, the form Of clut
which attains the desired end bes
is the now almost obsolete convex
faced bulger.
Spin for the Ball.
The bulger gives the highest In
crease of spin to the ball and there
fore the longest carry, and, curiousl,
enough, the best stance with which
a player can impart the highes
amount Of underspIn to the ball 1,
THAT adopted by Mr.. John Ball of play
ling of the right foot, with the lef
well I'm front. II ia with such a clul
land such a stance that the highcs
Initial velocity Is impaired to the ball
mot only when Il Is struck, but dur
ling the whole five or six seconds O
Its fight In the air.
Who can fail to remember the ex
pedients adopted fourteen or flfteeI
Years ago to achieve long driving b,
the use OF greenheart, Lakewood ant
hickory shafts, and with the head,
of drivers containing cunningly con
trived machinery behind the strikin,
face? The bulger needed, too, ex
traordinarily correct hitting to re
main popular for general use, and II
process of time all the old conve,