El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-12
UPRIGHT SWING DISPLACES
FLAT ONE IN GOLF
By "Sfraight DrfEe.s
T is only quite lately that an up

2 T is only quite lately that an up
right method Of swinging the club
has appeared to the general body
Of golfers anything but entirely vicious,
says the London Times. We have. to
be sure, had before rs for the best
part OF twenty years the example OF
tardons supreme among wooden club
players taking up his club with per
cepuDle AIt; but that has been regard
ed as an inimitable eeeentrieity OF
greatness
To define an upright swing Is ex-
traordinarlly difficult; even to see it
clearly IN all conscience hard enough,
What Wardon seems to do is some
Ihlng Ike this; He begins by execut-
ing the turning movement of the
wrists while standing particularly
sun and steady on his feet then this
initial movement over, he lifts the club
with smooth abruptness, If one may
explain IT. TO its ultimate position be-
mind the head, while simultaneously
with this second movement the foot
work comes into the swing. The
other upright sWingers have not quite
the same method, but there is a sug-
Sesuon OF It. The flat swing, which
has been generally taught consists
rather in sweeping the club more
along the ground and round the body
and cardinal point in II is that the
club should be travelling all the time
IN the same arc.
emily accrue 10 the upright sWingers.
IN the first place they can pick the
pan up with euViable ease with a
wooden club through the green; where
Iiar sWlnger would have to employ a
deliberate slice to circumVent a billOck
IN front of the bah they can send the
ball soaring over il BY their normal
methods where the flat sWfnger
might have to take an iron club to
make sure Of getting the ball away
70 i,
not only can they make the ball rise
very quickly, but they can also make
Il stop very quickly, and so can play
Deautlful, bold-looking shots right up
to the hOleside.
In the News of the World tourna-
ment at Sunningdale in 1910, when the
1lrst hole was almost Immediately
over the turf wall and dixie, Duncan
llIle aIler ume, pitched his second
win brassey, the wind being behind
MIN, straight up to the hole, and yet
yards
It was particularly noticeable when
ne was playing to the nineteenth hole
against Cyril Hughes, the latter-a
nat sWlnger, who plays with a hook
played short OF the bank: IL was OF
no use for him to risk the carry. be-
cause had his ball pitched over II
would have run right across the green.
Duncan played the shot comfortably
had an easy four. and won the hole
and match.
Another shot at another nineteenth
mole which sticks in the writer's
mind was played by Mr. Worthing-
ton IN this years London Foursome
Tournament at Stoke Poges. He had
not q very good lie off the tee shot
al least the ball seemed to lie unat-
tractively close to the ground-but he
took quite a straight-raced wooden
Grub, sent the ball flying high in the
air and as straight as a dart, to pitch
by the nag and remain near enough
70 II Tor his partner, Mr. LOngstaffe,
10 hit the hole with his put for three
II was a wonderful stroke. and no one
who had not something of Mr.. Worth
lngton,s upright swing could have
played it as he did.