New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04

III proportion.
| With the al-inch shaft the head
should be just n trife heavier with a
slight give to the shaft. I would sTg-
gest good average weight at 10
ounces for this length.
Take the case OF Bob Mcdonald. He
is over six feet and one of the longest
drivers that ever lived. Yet he only
uses 41-inch club around 1917
ounces in weight
The man who doesn't get to play very
often should use a trihe heavier club
than the one who has the opportunity
to play more frequently, as the slightly
heavier club will steady him down
trifle and prevent a fast, jerky back
swing.
The golfer with small hands and
slight wrists should have trifle more
whip to the shaft, where a big man
with big hands and wrists will need
but very little give"
Important Features of the Grip
| have had a number of my pupils
ask me the most important feature of
the grip.
In my opinion, the most important
feature has to do with the amount of
pressure from the fingers.
Suppose, for example, you were 60
ing to throw baseball. Taking the
ball with the thumb and first two fin
gers of your right hand you would
never think of gripping it with all
your force.
What you would do would be to hold
it lightly but firmly leaving the open
| ing for the snap at the right moment
You would never think of Squeezing
the ball with all the power you had in
your hand, as so many golfers squeeze
the club
Y GU should hold golf club with ex-
actiy the same grip in the way of
finger pressure that you use in throw
| ing baseball Entirely too many golf
tightly with the right hand The grip
of the left should always be firm, but
never rigid. 1t should be tirmer and
I slightly tighter on the back swing
| than the right
Another important point to remem-
Der here is to grip with the fingers, not
with the palm of the hand. 1t is from
the fingers that you get much of the
snap and most of the needed touch.
But the baseball illustration is the
BEST one can offer, as it hits the case
exactly You grip a baseball lightly
but firmly in the fingers and then
snap it through. That is exactly the
! way you should make golf stroke, SO
lar as the grip is concerned
Other Grip Features
use the Vardon grip, with both
thumbs down the shaft and the little
finger of the right hand overlapping
the forefnger of the left.
believe this is the soundest, safest
grip that one can take. l know such
fine golfers as Abe Mitchell, Alex
Smith, Tommy Kerrigan and others
use the old-fashioned two-handed
N-grip in driving, but l notice when
they come to iron play they go back to
the vardon grip for control, which,
after all, is what one seeks for first.
For of what use is distance without d.
rection?
"Chck" Evans doesn't overlap. but
he keeps both thumbs down the shaft,
which is almost the same thing, as
the thumb of the left hand is covered
| by the fingers of the right, making
both hands work as one.
l advocate the Vardon, or overlapping
grip for each player, whether his fin
gers are long or short, because I be-
lieve it insures better control of the
club and the swing, and is more de-
pendable than any other l know AL
ways remembering that the firmer grip
should be with the fingers Of the left
hand
But the most important feature to
remember is the baseball illustration.
which shows just how much pressure
should be used
Stance and Body Movement
Another bad habit that the average
! golfer has is that of standing entirely
too far away from his ball He is so
far away that he has to lean we'll for
ward, with extended arms, to reach the
ball and so usually falls into it as he
swings, forward.
The best advice to offer along this
lire is:
/. To take an easy, natural stance,