The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-25

that Mackenzie has ever been
interviewed to this extent on
his favorite game.
BY HENRY L. FARRELL
Washington, April 25.-Roland
Mackenzie is no puritanical amateur
on the subject OF writing about
golf, but he refuses to become an
author because he "hasn't begun to
know all there is about golf."
I'm too young and I have too
much to learn about the game to
be writing or telling anyone how
it should be played There is al
ways something that every player
can learn about the game" he told
the writer.
It was only with reluctance and
with q generous disposition to be
nice to q friend that the Washing
ton youngster consented to be inter-
viewed and then it was with the
strict understanding that snyth:ng
he said was merely an expression
about his own game and not 4 dog
matte course guaranteed to produce
= score in the low seventies after
two readings.
1--WE never been interviewed be-
fore and you'll have to pardon me
if l might appear slow. II you 60
around the course with me ] can
answer any questions you want to
ask me but don't look at my game
too close because I'm not bearing
down yet" he said.
Warned Against Texts
"When ! was just starting out to
play golf," he went on In explain
ing his aversion to any literary
work on the instructive phase Of the
game, II was warned against read
ing. Freddy Mcleod, my irstruc-
tor, told me not to read any articles
Of instruction and to forget them
if / did. He said would be so
filled up with do this and don't
do that that I couldn't loosen up
and be myself"
It was gathered during the later
conversation that Z lot Of young
Mackenzie's logic about his own
game is based upon the theory
BE yourself" He played football,
baseball and basketball IN mis- high
school days and he has a nice way
Of applying the fundamentals Of
those games to illustrate points he
makes about the technique of golf.
III tell you what I did when /
started and ! think it would not be
harmful for another beginner" he
said. II picked out my favorite
golfers and initiated them almost
down to personal rnannerisms. My
game is combination Of Bobby
Jones, Freddy Mcleod, Lea Diegel
and Bob Macdonald. / watched
them for countless rounds and
when ] picked up . club / tried to
make myself feel % they looked.
! remember once followed Jones
for five successive rounds and never
once looked at the ball he was play
ing.
Initiated His Heroes
Il believe this may be a natural
instinct in young Americans to OBJ
serve and initiate their heroes. For
this reason almost the tiniest young
ster will hold . baseball bat in q
fundamentally proper grip. He will
throw baseball or . football with
q natural swing and he will kick
football the same way. Now that
golf Is having m appeal to little
fellows you will notice that they
are getting m instinctively proper
way Of standing, holding and swing.
ing the clubs. OF course thew are
not in perfect form but they start
with the proper foundation.
II started ct the very beginning
% . mimic. used to make Nc.
Leod mad by initiating his every
movement on the course, even to the
extremity Of using . handkerchief
as he did and as loud as be did.
found later that in this manner
absorbed the fine points Of his game
without knowing II and without b.
ing burdened with the thought that
must do it and do it too exactly
Doesn't Stress FERNS
Mackenzie doesn't stress the i'm.
portance Of 20 many various and
widely differing preceptS laid down
by the masters about the stance, thu
conformation to the fraction Of o.
inch to . model position Of the body
and the feet. He believes, Of contse
that there il one ideal way 70 ii
everything but he also figures thai
what may b perfect for ! Layer
Of . certain build or physical typl
will not b effective IN some otlel
players and il il up to the in l;vjdual
70 find the style that quits him
best and works best TOR him.
Mackenzie does emphasize, how.
ever, the necessity Of using . proper
grip on the club but he leaves thl
selection Of one Of two orthodox
grips 70 the individual
TOMORROW: Mackenzie tell
Farrell NJ Nees . grips IN
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