The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
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How To Pracice

This Is the time for the golfer to help himself most with the game by practicing-but how to practice that is the question. Golfers have been told ever since the game began to practice, but who has ever told him how to practice? Perhaps l can help some of you by outlining sim pie method of practice. Any player who follows this method will see his game improve wonderfully.
 I will assume that the player has. with the aid of his professional, or through some years of active playing, learned his grips and the stances that most comfortable fit his phys ique. If he has progressed that far and now seeks to become a really first-elass player the next step. be- yond all question, is to follow definite system of practice. with definite amount of work each day. It would be a good idea. l might say at the time. to lay aside competitive play, giving the total playing time each day to practice. And get In the practice. rain or shine.
 If you are newcomer to the game. go to a professional and get from him a proper idea of the way to grip the clubs and swing them. Players who have been on the links for years might also profit their games by visiting a pro" at this early period of the season. Do not try to initiate the professional exactly. Golf is not learned by imitation, but by application. You must learn to put your physicl and mental fin dividuality into everything and work to that end. < Don't Overdo Stroke Now lay in supply of two dozen golf balls for practicing. but take hit more than twelve shots in success sion with any one club Nothing is gained by work with the clubs when you have beenfatigued by swinging any one particular club. It is exercise, but not progress to swing the club when all you put into the work is effort. good for fat about the stomach but of no benefit to the stroke in golf.
 Swing your club only when you hit the ball. We all have watched they uld almost clip the ashes from delions from the landscape. In fact, they could almost clip the ashes fram cigarette but one of the freaks of golf is that these 'dandelion swings" are made more or less hastily, with a knowledge in the players mind that . nothing is lost if he does miss the dandelion, so that when he swings at the ball his muscles not only are somewhat fatigued. but they have been trained in the dandelion swing ing to jump at the swing. It is no uncommon thing to see a player clip off dandelion after dandelion, then miss the ball entirely or miserably dub his real effort at the tee. The player would do better just to swing k >fe. -1. ,tu~4 | t .oh fr At tne at anything in particular This will loosen up the muscles and it enables the player to observe his swing more closely and keep the rhythm as 1t should be.
 Distances
 A good idea Is to put three small flags or markers--sticks with bit of white clot attached. Arrange these in the form of a scalene triangle. This enables you to hit a long shot, medium shot and short one. You can play all these with mashie. but better idea is to use a longer iron or a brassie for the long shot and use the mashie oi. when you apply cut-spiin to the ball to make 1t hold where it falls. The cut-shot should not be ettemptecn distances less than 80 to 125 yards. Any shot of shorter distance Is a chip shot and should be executed with no thought of cut spin on the ball.
 Go around this miniature three-flas course with half dozen balls. and keep one thing constantly in mind: Never fail to complete the shots re- gardless of whether they are good or bad. The shots which, is matter of preference. you do not care to make will be the ones that will give you your best practice and shine up your game.
 The effect of such practice. along this definite line, is truly amazing. Willie Hunter. the British amateur champion, worked on the same prin- ciple at the last national amateur championship. on a strange-to him course. and a most difficult one. He nearly won our championship as a result of it.
 Copyright. John F. Dille col -