Evening star., 1915-12-05

ing others play over various courses
And this fault is especially common
among the so-called buffers.
; You see them playing up and down
the course, missing their iron shots,
topping most of them, and wondering
| what on earth has happened. It's
quite easy to detect the cause. When
they want to get the ball up in the
air. in place of letting the club, which
| is built for that purpose. do the work.
they attempt to get the ball up by
Jerking their hands up as II they were
doing the lifting. The iron face of a
! mid-iron is constructed for the pur-
pose of getting the ball in the air.
II the club head comes through prop
erly the ball will rise in the proper
way. But big section of the golfing
clan doesn't seem to appreciate this.
They feel that they must. snap their
wrists up as the club head meets the
| ball to get the ball up. This els al
most sure to result in topped shot
certainly bad one So, when you
have spell of topping with your irons
recall this and begin to let the club
head do the lifting. Let the club head
go on through and by no means make
any attempt to jerk the ball up from
one that will bear watching, for it
spolis many shot in the course of a
season, almost as many as looking up
or shifting the body into poor timing.
one OF the main things. for golfer
to remember in starting to get back of
his game is that golf, above all other
things in the world, is game of in
finite patience
Those who expect too much. who are
looking for quick returns, worry too
much, get peevish and finally careless
, In place of working more easily than
usual and with more thought, they hit
harder and harder, and let their tenn
pers wreck their judgment The only
Is to secure the proper instruction, and
tnen work at his comeback with pa
thence and with deliberate thought 1t
! is impossible to say how many golfers
nave been ruined by expecting too
much in too short "a time, and then
letting encouragement set in.
Study VS.. Profanity.
was playing in a two-ball match one
day with veteran golfer. We passed
another golfer on the course who had
been playing less than a year. We
were right at him when he stepped up
to pitch shot over the bunker and
then fooled. with the result that he
carried nicely into trouble.
The aftermath was an explosion. He
threw his club after the ball and began
to get profane in about five languages
at the same time.
When he had finished his long list of
expletives, my friend, the veteran
player. simply said, What's the kick?
You didn't expect to make good
shot, did you?"
And the profanity started all over
again. But that was the trouble. The
duffer saw no reason Why he shouldn't
make that shot like an Evans. And
when he failed, instead of realizing
that it was only natural that a begin
ner should miss a hard pitch shot of
that type, he Immediately flew into a
frenzy, and probably got worse and
worse. -
Suppose, in place of losing control
of his temper there, that he had taken
things as matter of course, and put
the same amount of energy into study
ing just what he had done wrong, and
In thinking of some way to correct the
fault. He would not only have found
greater pleasure in the game. but he
would have begun to improve beyond
the average.
cite this case because it is Illus
trative of a big body of golfers an
amazing percentage. Here we. have
game that requires more calmness.
Judgment. stolidity and control than
any other game ever known. And yet
we have thousands of players trying
to learn it with frazzled nerves, with
their tempers uEleashed, with their
judgment wrecked, simply because they
haven't been able to control themselves,
and all the while they are wondering
why 1t is they don't improve and why
It is they can't possibly get back on
their game 4
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