The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-18
HINTS FROM MIGHTY
GOLFERS MAY. help
STUDENTS OF GAME
By FRANK q. MlsNKE
} you faWncy golf?

And are you keen about improving
your game?
Then, perhaps, few words from
Abe Mitchell, the long distance swat
| ter, and George Duncan, one of the
best all around globule clubbers in
the world, might be of interest.
Mitchelps mighty driving power has
excited comment the world over. he
banged the gutta percha on the Nor
wood links one afternoon for 314
yards. At Skokie, while here on his
exhibition tour, he dubbed twice for
| a few beet beyond 800 and never even
| gets a thrill out of it when he cracks
| the target for 275 to 290 yards.
| How Gomez" someone asked the
veteran pro.
! THE difference between my driving
and the driving of most of the other
| fellows is that they are too intent
| upon the follow through" explained
| Mitchell What I'm interested in is
| to have my driving powere at its
zenith at the very fraction of the sec
ond that club meets ball The average
| golfer, who thinks all the time about
the follow through usually gets his
mind so focused that he doesn't arrive
/ at the full power of his swing until
after he has hit the ball.
| Lack Velocity
by that | mean that there isn't
enough initial velocity in the ordin-
airy drive. Most golfers swing in
such way as to have the greatest
power in their drive beyond the tee,
rather than at the very second the
ball is hit. By timing my stroke so
that the greatest power that is pos
sible is in force when | hit the ball,
naturally hit the ball farther than
the man whose swing meets the ball
when the swing is not quite at its full
lest:
THE follow through is all right
But the full force hit is a bit more i'm.
portant, for, after all, the object of
the game is to send the ball as far off
as possible and not to have a perfect
follow through. For it's an established
fact that the ball sails away the very
fraction of the second that it is hit
and no matter how perfect a follow
through you may have, it isn't going to
help the flight Of the ball-because
l the ball already is on its way"
: The ordinary golfer often has not
iced that the pro" when playing shots
to the green usually has more poise
and balance than the greatest of ANA
teurs.
Duncan, explaining it, said:
Doesn't Study Poise
THE average professional studies
/ poise and balance beyond anything
y else. But the amateur doesn't. The
e professional, after learning the game
y in all its intricacies, never stops study
ing it, whereas the amateur is in
n tn hnnnvNan IL
r study no more. 1t means livelihood
/ for the professional golfer not merely
g to hold his game, but to improve it
t Every professional quickly comes
Il to learn that the difference between
a bad shot to the green and one tina
t. is truly played, lies in perfect balance
= at the moment the ball is hit l know
h of many professionals who have spen
weeks, months and years almos
e wholly in the study of body balance
= They practice swaying the body, il
a shifting weight from one leg to an
e other until such time as they have dis
y covered the exact stance they mus
assume to get 100 per cent efficient.
out of their approach shot.
| IF one studies the average profas
sional golfer, he will note why tina
player has so much balance anC
7 poise. He will see that the body o
the professional sways gently ant
that the professional, at the momen
he swings, transfers his body weigh
t to the left leg so that when tn,
: stroke is completed. the body weigh
is following along with the end of tn
l. shot.
n Many players would improve thei
# drives considerably = and immeasur
e ably increase the distance of thei
e, approach shots-if they learned tn
o knack of balance and always swayet
s the body so that at the moment tn,
ball is hit the power and the weigh
r of the body is behind the swing"
j. Copyright 1921 BY King Features
4 Syndicate. Incl