The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-14
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 In the first of these suggestions on how to practice. In which I spoke of individual three flag course, my idea was to put the player to work with his irons. Most players do good deal of practice swinging, but the observer can see that 1t is mostly done with wooden clubs. The golfer does- mt realize IT, perhaps, but the hard clubs in golf arc the irons, and strangely enough. the farther down the fairway you go the harder it becomes to handle the club properly right down to tho butter, the last iron and the most baffling club of all. If you observe tho players at tournaments it will strike you per- haps as strange that you never see one practising with a wood club--al- ways with irons. The club usually has to hang Up liGt of prizes for driving contest In order to get the wood clubs into play at all. The or dinory player can surely get good tip from that.
 The three flag course should give the player a good daily dose of full iron practice, with the long shot, the medium shot and the short one. Following this, he will benefit greatly by centering on 24 full mashie shots. That completed he should next go to one of the greens.
 BEGINNING TO WORK
 In your practice up to this point you may have tired yourself some. but now youll begin begin to sweat now we are going to work in earn est The little three-flag course was merely prelimtnry.
 From the edge of tho green drap 12 balls at different spots in the sands of the bunlters Don't pick easy spots put them in the worst places you can find in the bunkers, places that would seem to make recovery al- most impossible. You can trust the ball always to choose such a place for It's resting place when it finds the bunker In actual play. Now get down into the traps and play the balls up to the green to the very best of your ability. Make each shot an individual affairs and strip the shot in hand of all relation to the previous shot. This kind of practice is per haps the toughest of all but 1t may ease 1t some for you to reflect that Sir Arthur Balfour, the British statesman, began his golf career in the traps and wasn't permitted to hit a ball from any other lie for two weeks!
 After this practice at the traps, throw twelve balls out into some long grass. Execut the greatest of care in playing these balls clear up to the cup. After they have been holed take six of the balls and toss them out from the green. Keep the balls fairly close to the edge of the green. the purpose now being to execute six run-up shots. Do not make this shot long enough to constitute a pitcher a chip.
 TRY 4s PUTTs
 Now, 4S butts. Make 12 butts from opposite sides of the hole, and follow these with 12 short butts from each side of the hole. No matter what happens, sink every one of ! the butts. and sink each one carefully and deliberately. Do not do 1t loosely or carelessly. Far better mt to waste | your time than do 1t withou sincere 1 effort and concentration to purpse. Circumstances must in all cases de . | termine the amount of practice or the | time that can be given it. Thus the | player n " increase or cut the mum : 1 Der of shots herewith prescribed, but ! should not let down in any particular | on the method of practice. Miss Alexa l Stirling once declared that she ac- | complished all her golf excellence | with practically no practice. Per haps she Is one of the fortunate few who need but little practice. like | Bob" Gardner. the superb Chi oe go | golfer But Miss Stirling is a must | clan. In music. I dare say, she puts a different interpretation on the l term practice. for accomplished