The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
coLF MYsTERY .ExPLAINED.
IT'S An Twist Of the wrist. and .
Club Maker Tells How 70 Get It.

To THB EDITOR OF THE suN--Sir: I've
been waiting for some crack player to
respond to your invitation and explain
why some golfers with slender arms and
boylsh build generally get their long
drives. Well. q. duffer, learned all
about It, and without waiting for the
wise low handicap chaps TO tell I'll toll
To begin with. some OF your readers
who have bean d. writing interestingly
about old time minstrels will recall n
song Billy Emerson, think II was used
to sing In an Irish dialect type cannot
render. the refrain Of which was;
One. two. three. balance like me.
You are q daisy but you have your
faults,
Tour left foot 10 crazy. your reht foot
10 iazy,
But don't be onaisy, I'll teach you
to waltz.
Very well Reading in THE Sum about
old time minstrels the tune Of that song
came into my head and wouldn't go
away. II was buzxing there when. the
other day. asked the club maker Of
the golf links frequent why pulled
my iron shots and sliced and generally
fuzsled my wood shots. / asked him
because I was aware that when the
shop was not busy he went over the
course with his assistant. or the caddy
master. or even with the professional,
and usually took cash away from them
on their bets.
I'll show you" he said.
While he was showing me, after ask
ing easily II I had a steel bar set In my
left wrist I became conscious he was
humming the tune of the old song I've
spoken of. And it's a funny thing that.
isn't it7 I've often noticed that when
a tune is swinging relentlessly through
ones mental ears companion will
suddenly give voice to the same tune.
Sing It," said. and he proceeded
to sing: ..
One, two, three. swing now like me.
You are . daisy. but you'll have TO
strive
Your left wrist 10 lazy. your right wrist
Is crazy.
But don't be onaisy. I'll teach you
to drive ....
'Unriddle your poem, Jack" said.
'Its all in the wrists" he replied. "and
that goes all through tho club bag from
hear the professional telling his pupils
at two bucks lesson TO put their wrists
into it, to get the snap Of the wrists,
and never explaining to the poor lambs
at all. Listen. When you begin to move
your club head away from the ball on
the up swing do 1t by bending in your
left wrist. Seer You hold your left
wrist as stiff as bar OF iron. as was
telling you. Supple It'll Bend It In. not
back or sideways.
Now, In swinging down for the hit
reverse that; bend your left wrist back
Just before the club head reaches the
ball. That does two things: brings the
club head to the ball on a line. an UP
and down line, you understand. ahead
OF your hands, and II adds to the rate
Of motion your arms give the club head
tho motion your bending wrist gives to
It. That's the snap Of the wrist the
pro talks about but never explains.
Two dollars? Thank you. II didn't
like to make clubs more than to play
with them might so in for being q
pro-"
But how about the right wristT' I
asked.
Forget It," he answered. How about
one armed Martucci landing fourth place
in a field Of ffty-four starters. all pros.
out at shackamaxon the other dayf He
has no right wrist at ALL
went over to"Baltusroi, which is sew
eral strokes harder than the course
usually play, and went round that
mans course. ana a strange one to me.
In Aya efnoLaa ,inder NV ayera 1e for NV
home course. where I know every blade
of grass. There is the explanation for
the slender fellows getting of as long
a ball as the big fellows.
New YORK, August Is. Ex-DuFFER.