The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-12
Tee, Faiirway and Green
By CHAs. "CHICK. EVANS, JR. THE DRIVE IS EASY!


 When the golfer acquires the true driving swing, the one thing about 1t that surprises him most is the very ease of it. It is so easy to do, he finds, that he could stand and do it all day.
 It is easy to do, but the struggle between the start of it, when golf is first taken up. and the final accom- plishment of 1t anywhere from year to a lifetime afterward, is the thing that makes of golf the endless pur- suit. If we could all do it so easily the game would lose it's charm. Any how, soon as you acquire the driving swing you have to begin on the irons, which are considerably differ ent. And when you learn how to strike with your irons. you have to learn just how hard to hit, which Is still harder. But after you acquire all that you begin to see light, for you have nothing left to accomplish except putting-and that's impos- sible. Truly, in golf the first hun dred years are the hardest.
 Unquestionably the first thing to- ward making 1t easy is to get cor rect understanding of what happens. When you know what happens you can make your swing an easy. effort less, graceful and rhythmic bodily exertion and snap the ball away as the good player always does seem ingly without bothering to exert him helfs at all, Rudy Knepper, for in- stance. drives his ball almost with out moving his body. so it seems. He moves 1t, but he does 1t with such rhythm that, while you see his club moving, his body seems to remain fixed.
 the first move toward this grace the idea of putting body power into the stroke. Body power gets you nothing in the golf drive. You want the force of the body in there, but you must throw it in In such a way that you are unconscious of it. In the final analysis of it. the golf ball Is driven with the hands. You work your hands to the absolute limit in the full drive. This means that at the instant of impact with the ball your left hand is resisting your right. and it is at Chat instant that your body weight, flowing into your down swing with the right side and right shoulder push. gets in everything that you can put into your stroke. As nearly as you can do so. make the left hand stop when it gets about even with the ball, then shove with all you've got in your right side. The more nearly you can make the left hand stop while the right hand swishes the club through, the more power you will apply to the ball.
 Get your left heel down onto the ground just as you start the down swing, have a sense of stopping your left hand at the ball, and be on your right toe-pushing-whe the club head meets the ball. Then let your right shoulder dip into 1t and follow after the ball as far as you can. In all this hold on tight with the left hand.
 You can drive a golf ball just as far as your left hand, resisting the pow CT of the right side of your body, can stand up against the gaff, as the saying is. At the point where your left hand collapses is the point where you get the measure of what you can do with a driver. Hold a clubhead against 8 tree or a tee box, grasping the end of the shaft with your left hand. Then. as you hold 1t. bear against the shaft until it bends with your right hand. Note how your left hand resists the right during the pressure. Make the hand thus re- sist in your down swing. Do 1t cas- fly, without conscious effort-and before you know 1t you will be amazed at how easy it really Is to pry the ball off the tee and send 1t straight down the fairway-in long, arrowy, thrilling flight.
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