Evening star., 1939-10-15
Not Much Body Turn
Required for Shot,
Open King Says
New .StreamIined Swing
Brings Best Results;
Linkswomen Busy
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

wi lCCG uoC VI tIlC l1d1lOo 10 VIC
most important thing any golfer can
learn" said Byron Nelson, the youth
ful-looking National Open champion.
Byron is u. IT mean that If you
watch good golfers you'll see where
they use their hands to the fullest
extent"
Many people forget" said Lord
Byron, the youngster who won the
open title in an elongated playoff
last June at Philadelphia, that the
clubhead-the hitting part of the
whole business-merely is a pro-
longation of the arms and hands,
and that if your hands reach the
ball in correct position the ball will
be hit correctly.
But there's the tough part of this
game of golf. You can't always con-
troll those hands. You get them in
little too fast and the ball shoots
OF to the right. You cross your right
over too soon and you hood the
clubface, and you have a diving
hook. And if you don't use them
right In dozen other ways some
thing goes wrong with the shot"
Leo Diegel was walking along the
fairway, watching Byron. That
boy has probably the finest hand
saction in golf" said Larruping Leo.
"But he's terrible when he forgets to
cock those wrists and get those
hands up high. Boy, he can produce
some real diving hooks when he
doesn't cock those wrists. Even as
good a golfer as Nelson sometimes
forgets those little things. And, if he
good as he is-overlooks an i'm
portant part of the whole thing, how
ber?"
Uses Little Body Turn.
Nelson explained to me that inso-
Tar as his own game is concerned, he
has come to the modern way Of hit
ting golf ball without much body
turn, swinging in straight line and
eliminating some of the frills the
old-t1mers used. Lead the swing of
your body" they used to say. But
It's hard to tell nowadays just which
'leads, the body or the hands.
There's one thing sure. This is
that the modern, streamlined golf
swing which is winning champion
ships today finds the hands put to
far more use than in the old days,
when the swing around the body
was the thing. The modern masters
among them Nelson-use more
hands and less body. Which may be
the answer to their accuracy and
consistency.
You can get more action out of
machinery with few moving parts
than out of complicated mass of
machinery with lot of stuff to get
out of kilter That's the theory the
young champions of today are using,
Their creed is to use the hands more,
to cut out the body turn and to let
the body work incidentally to the
hitting action Of the hands.
1t works. And who are we to
challenge anything that works so
well that the National Open cham
pionship record today is five strokes
lower than it was in 1895?
Bogart Is Rising Star.
Mems tournaments for the year
are over around Washington, bar
ring few more club championships
and one or two amateur-pro affairs
But the year has produced one good
young golfer who may have a bril-
liant future in front of him. That
boy is 19-year-old Ralph Bogart.
boy, what pair of hands and feet
he has" quipped AL Jamison, Indian
Spring pro. That kid sure has good
underpinning. Those gunboats hold
him down, and ne has great pair
Of hands. He can go places in this
game. It depends on him alone"
Bob Brownell is the top Simon
pure Of the year, but If Bogart starts
next season as he has finished this
one he'll give tow-headed Bob quite
. nudge for the top spot. The tall
Bogart boy seems to be the answer
to what amounts to prayer for a
really good amateur around town;
he and Brownell. They may make
up the best pair of Simon pures in
the amateur game in a dozen years,
since Roland Mackenzie and George
Voigt put the Capital on the front
page In golf back in the late 20s.
More Golf for Women.
The Post Cup tourney at Chevy
Chase tomorrow ushers In another
big week for the feminine golfers.
Postponed from October 3, the Post
tourney will be played with original
starting times holding good.
Tuesday picked team of 13 wom-
en- will journey up to Philadelphia
to play the girls from Quakertown
In another team match. This one,
scheduled for Wednesday, will carry
q new angle, Scotch foursome
sffair. Not many of the local gals
have played this highly interesting
form Of competition.
The Presidents plate tourney at
Columbia next Friday makes another
big affair for the women golfers.
This one, however, will have limit
ed field, being open only to present
officers and committee members of
the Womens District Association
and to past officers.
Links Rule Held Unfair.
The rules of golf are all right in
most cases, but you run into some
queer conflicts in others. Take the
case Of Marion Brown and a mole
hill near the 14th green at WASH
ington, for example. Marion's tee
shot ended in a mole hill, down be-
tween the convolutions in such a
position that she couldn't get q fair
shot at the pill.
The rule book says that loose
impediments" may be removed and
specifies a mole hill as q loose
impediment." adding that such i'm
pediments may be removed. But
have you tried to remove a mole hill
other than by pressing It down with