The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-04
Tee, Fairway And
 Green
HIT AWAY FROM THE nAII

A" FhOM THE HALL
 Tn the task of making the golf swing instinctive and easy, which. of z course, is the objective of all golfers. one thing which you must get the sense of is what happens at the in- stant the down swing begins.
 Practically all duffer golfers hit immediately downward from the top of the back swing. The whole ten dency of the effort from that point, with these players, is to go to the ball. Practically all good golfers, at the instant of launching the down swing, strike away from the ball.
 The clubhead starts on it's down. ward journey as if you were going to drive it into the ground at a point out from the right foot. When it is about halfway down, the right hand and right side of the body take com mand of the swing, for the first time In the swing, and this slashes the clubhead forward and through the ball.
 To Set the proper sense of this take clubhead to the top position and hold it there. Then start the clubhead downward by pushing it straight away from you. Let it go in that direction until the backturn has been taken out of your wrists. Try this several time until you get an idea of just how it is that the clubhead gets started down. Now do one thing more. While you are thus starting the clubhead, let your left heel return to it's original position, flat on the ground. Practice that several times. Let your right shoul- tier seem to push your left heel down. When you have accomplished that start of the clubhead you will be getting into the right way of starting the clubhead downward. All that remains. when you get the right start, is to let the right hand come into command and whip the club right toe as the Nclubhead goes through, in order to, apply rhythm and pressure Be conscious of seeing the ball and center your whole at tertion on shooting your clubhead into it. Let it take care of itself
 A correct sense of how you hit away from the ball, instead of toward it, from the top of the swing enables you to get the club started easily, without jerk, and that leads immediately to a more rhythmic swing. The reason the club must be started away from the ball, and not toward it, is because the wrists, in takinS.t the club to the top of the back swing, have bent back and un- der. This bend in the wrists must have time to reverse as the club is starting down, or the wrists Will not be in proper position at, the time the ball is struck. The wrists exercise powerful influence on the golf stroke-they really make it effective --but their action is so rapid and comes at such a time that the player cannot be conscious of it. He can control the action properly only by seeing to 1t that the clubhead is properly handled at the starting points of the swing. These starting points are the instant when the swing as whole begins, and the gins. The wrists require no further instant when the down swing be- attention. There is no such thing as giving the wrists a flick" just as the ball is hit. They do flick but they do it and have it over with long long before you could possibly think of directing them to do 1t.
 yeu have to give the clubhead time @ lo it's work-that is, you have to wait back a little for it at the be- ginning of the down swing. Get the sense of starting the clubhead away from the ball instead of at it and you will readily get the feel of it. keep your mind on the clubhead. Let it do the work. That is what n is on the end of the club for.
 fConyright John F. Dille Col