The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-03-04
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10y P J.GAUDIN
SKOKIE COUNTRY club
& UNION LEAGUE CLUB
Chksso


you read this description, try 1t at
nee Stand a few inches from a
wall or open doorway and lean for
touches the wall or doOr-jamb.
You are fairly balanced on both
feet. Keep your forehead pressed
against the support and move the
hips to the right until you feel dis
tinctly that the weight Is on the
right leg. As a matter of fact, you
feel thar you are sitting up on top
of the right leg. There is not q
particle of rotary motion. If you
are leaning against a wall, the mo-
ton of the hips is exactly parallel
with the wall. If there has been
any rotary or twisting motion of
the hips, try it again until you are
certain the motion is wholly side
wise.
When you are certain you have
gone through this movement prop
erly move the hips as far to the left
as they will go. being sure that the
forehead stays where it was. At
the end OF the movement to the
left. you will have the same feeling
of sitting on top of your left leg as
you had at the end of the move
ment to the right. Now just go
over the whole movement again
with the arms hanging loosely and
note that about the only body
movement is a dip of the left shout
der when the hips go to the right
and a corresponding dip of the right
shoulder when the hips go to the
left.
This is where what should be
called the pivot begins. Go
through the same motion, making
the regular backward swing to the
top with the arms and continuing
through TO the finish, with the right
shoulder as far down and through
your head. All that movement
above the hips is a real pivot.
Finally, take your regular stance,
keeping your forehead against the
support. Probably your left foot is
toed out. Toe straight for the line
with the left foot. Then go
through the whole movement, slow
~ toward the right and as fast as
you can against the stifrened left
leg, letting your head turn around,
not lift at the finish. All that is
the perfect pivot.
38-The press Forward"
The press forward" long has
been used by nearly every expert
golfer. but Chick Evans hrst named
III and eyDlainpd itS use
In his early years Chick was q
good type Of the golfer who slashed
out long hits and suffered the usual
penalty of inaccurscy. He finally
decided that any good golfer could
get q long enough tee shot IL he
concentrated on accuracy and con-
sequently q shorter ball. After
many months of experiment he de-
cided that the way to get an ac-
curate ball was to force his club TO
be at exact right angles with the ,
line OF flight to the hole for at least /.
six inches back of the ball and six
through and past ii. 1t was
in the second year of these expert
ments that he discovered the use by
experts Of what Chick calls a vibra-
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ward and backward movement OF
the wrists just above the back
On taking his stance. with
the club soled behind the ball, lie
pressed his wrists back and forth
parallel with the line of flight and
discovered that, when they were
bent backward. they were several
inches back of the original position.
He simply Strengthened his wrists,
making his hands point toward the
inc instead OF TO the left, and the
club head responded by travelling
back from the ball on the !
inc OF flight. With the club head :
-hus drawn back, Chick keeps the
Hub almost on the ground until it is :
upward by the ascending :
lrms. As nearly as humanity pos
;ible, the face Of the club remains C
It right angles to the line through t
,ut the entire swing. This forces Y
short back swing, Chicks normal +
,oint of turning for the down :
troke being when the club Is only :
trife past the perpendicular. y
fore nearly than with any other Z
tar player, the club comes back
the line it took going up and is +,
'ack exactly at right angles to the :.
Inc a foot or more before the ball :.
) reached. Chick thinks the swing ID
5 an easy one, but ii viii be easier
Or the ''open face" golfer-Chick's a
lub face is closed-to make the A
onward press as described but TO :,
epend on the lateral hip movement
o bring his hands back.
3e-Standsrdizins the Swing.
1t Is fully as important for the
DIFF beginner TO learn what not TO
D as TO learn just what 1t is neces- A
to do. Least of all should the y
eginner copy what really are the :
Of the experts. The first }
OF the beginner should be n
learn the how and the why of i
lch element OF the golf stroke and O
to make a change unless 1t is T.
ell considered and certain, after 9
lal, to be an improvement. ?
A golfer who had passed the be .
ming stage and who had deyel- S
bed an Unexpectedly good form ii
as seen last year 10 be practicing F,
bobbing down OF the head on the
lck swing and bobbing 1t up on Il
Ie forward swing, simply because p
had seen Jim Barnes do it. II Il
'ok a good deal OF discussion and ii
amonstration to prove that Jim G
arnes W had bobbed his head tr
the golfer thought he did. There -
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