The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-30
Tee, Fairway And
 Green
By CHICK" EVANS
YOU CAN GET THE SWING

YOU CAN GET THE SWING
 It is possible for anyone whose muscles still have some strength and resiliency to become good golfer.
 By good golfer, as a term, do not mean that 1t is possible for any one to become consistent par golfer. He should be able to play consistently in the sos.
 The golf swing is made instinc- lively, and the instinct is trained by practice along the right lines. As Chester Horton, the teacher, says; In golf the swing is everything. The novice perhaps needs that term explained or interpreted for him. l shall try to explain why the swing is everything. 6
 In golf the swing produces the stroke, and the stroke brings off the shot. Thus there can be no strok e or shot without the proper swing, so the first thing to accomplish, there fore, Is the swing. Once you get the swing and get so you do 1t tnstinc- tively-that is, without thinking very much about it-the rest is easy. It is easy mean, Tor the player 10 get his score consistently into the sos. To get much beyond that a fine sense of touch must be devel- oped, and this requires long and arduous practice. When you begin striving for par, however, you at the same tune TOD yOuI Sduio VI much of it's pleasure. It often seems to me that the fellow who plays in the sos really gets the most fun out of golf. Most of his shots are good, sokthat when he makes bad one he doesn't care much. When the par shooter makes few bad ones terror grips his heart. He suffers an in- describable fear that his game IS losing it's edge--and to solitary prae- tice he must return again. It's like fasting getting back into form again.
 Any competent teacher can impart to you the proper methods of eXecut- ing the golf swing. It really is com ,paratively simple to accomplish. The point to observe is this: Stay with the instructor until he has had time enough to get you into the hang or it. Then refuse to listen to eXperi- ments and suggested different ways of doing it. Determine, first, that you will accomplish the swing under the direction of some man who knows how, and that you will follow his instruction absolutely until the thing is mastered. If you must play in the meantime, either stick re- ligiously to what he says, or forget all theory for the time being ana just play naturally
 You do not need to play on a course to accomplish the swing. It can better be done in practice court, in your back yard or out back of the pros shop. Do not use a ball. A ball is not part of swing. The swing is everything. Ut is an art. Therefore, foreso everything else to the accomplishment of the swing.
 After you get the swing and do 1t instinctively, your attention cen ters on results. Focus your eye and your mind on the spot on which you intend to put the ball, and forget The mechanical details of making the swing. But first, yor must get the swing.
 The thing can be done; the real trouble is that so very few golfers are really willing to do what's necessary to acquire the swing. Ac- tually doing the necessary things represents the difference between the golfer who wishes and the one who accomplishes. Make no mistake about it. you get the golf swing by the sweat of your brow, and in no other way.
 (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.)