The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-22

Clubs, Grip and Stance.
In the matter OF selecting golf clubs
1 want to say at the start that am
great believer in shorter clubs than the
average player uses
happen to be six feet three inches
tall, so my driver and brassie are 421s
inches in length.
But for the man of average height
believe that Al inches is entirely
long enough for a wooden club, with
the iron clubs in proportion
With the 41-inch shaft the head
should be just a trifle heavier, with a
slight give to the shaft I would sug-
gest a 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 a 41-inch club around 10 u
ounces in weight
The man who doesn't get to play
very often should use a trifle heavier
club than the man who has the OPP
portunity to play more frequently as
the slightly heavier club will steady
him down trifle and prevent fast,
jerky back-swing.
The golfer with small hands and
slight wrists should have trifle more
whip to the shaft. where big man
with big hands and wrists Will need
but very little give"
Important Features of the Grip
I have had a number of my pupils
ask me the most important feature OF
the grip.
feature has to do with the amount Of
pressure from the fingers
Suppose, for example, you were go
ing to throw a baseball Taking the
ball with the thumb and first two ms
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 nom nt
You would never think of squeezing
the ball with all the power you had in
your hand, as so many golfers squeeze
the club head.
You should hold a golf club with ex-
actly the same grip in the way of fin
ger pressure that you use in throwing
a baseball. Entirely too many golfers
make the mistake of gripping TOO
tightly with the right hand The grip
of the left should always be firm, but
never rigid. 1t should be firmer and
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 tne
best one can offer, as ii hits the case
exactly. You grip a baseball lightly
but firmly in the fingers and then
snap it thru. That is exactly the way
you should make a golf stroke, so far
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 forefinger OF the left.
I believe this is the soundest. safest
grip that one can take know such
! fine golfers as Abe Mitchell, Alex
Smith Tommy Kerrigan and others
use the ld-fashioned two-handed V
grip in driving, but 1 nptice when they
come to iron play they go back to the
Vardon grip for control, which after
Z all. is what one seeks for first For Of
what use is distance without direction
Chick Evans doesn't overlap. but
3 he keeps both thumbs down the shaft,
/ which is almost the same thing. as the