The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-01
WOOD SHOTS =. NO. ------------- Make Sure To Get Out Of Trouble In One Stroke, Urges Craig Wood
Quitting On Shot Adds To Golfers Difficulty, Score
Last of six informative and in- structlve articles.
H272R
Winner of Masters Tournament and GOIf's Foremost Teacher


 and GOlf's Foremost Teacher
 New York, May 1.-The average golfer fetars the trap shot more than any other.
 He neg1ects to practice recoveries as diligently as he does other shots.
 The result is that he is upset mentally when he gets into trouble. He lacks confidence, loses strokes.
 Make sure to get out of sand, rough or any other hazard with one stroke. That is the main idea. The good player seldom uses more than one shot.
 Don't be afraid to dtg holes in sand to obtain a firm foundation for the feet.
 Stand over the hall.
 The swing should be more up- right with the ball played of the left foot.
 Don't lunge at the ball.
 The sand-wedge is heavy enough to give you the power needed.
 Don't jab the ball.
 Follow through.
 Use 0 No. 3 iron when the ball Is behind trees with low hanging branches.
 Play the ball off the right toe with the feet close together.
 Grasp the club short and, with the weight shifted to the left foot, swing short and flat, punching the ball. There Is no follow through here.
 A shot thus played gives you the low trajectory necessary to keep the ball under the branches.
 To shoot over trees, play the shot with the body straighter and swing more upright.
 Play the ball nearer the left foot with the feet closer together than the shot would normally call for. TREES MAY BE USED TO ADVANTAGE, TOO
 In the first Masters Tournament I drove into the woods to the right of the fairway on the second hole of the Augusta National course, which is now played as the 1lth, A fade second looked as if 1t might reach its objective, but the ball struck & tree and bounded back far- ther into the trees, coming to rest on a newspaper.
 To approach the green I could play 0 No. iron back toward the tee or shoot for an opening in the tree 75 yards away. chose the latter.
 I figured that if the shot was successful the ban would probably carom off a branch of a tree I picked as a target and roll toward the carpet. I would then be in position to get a possible or certain 6.
 I concentrated on keeping my head centered on the ball, took the club back in a semi-closed posi- tion and hit straight for the tree. True to my aim, the ball struck @ branch of the tree, bounded onto the green and rolled within half inch of the cup. I holed out for & 4. The shot enabled me to finish second to Horton Smith, the win- rer NIBLTCK PULLS WOOD OUT OF HEAVY ROUGH
 I messed my drive as well as my second on the lzth hole of the final | round of the last Hawaiian Open.
 My third out of the jungle trav- eled about three feet, remaining in heavy rough.
 The same Horton Smith led me by three strokes. I couldn't afford to lose many more strokes to him. I selected niblick, swung as If the ball was in sand, and landed on the green. Two puts gave me a 6, and I thanked my lucky stars 1t wasn't an 8. I steadied there- after and managed to win.
 Don't quit on shot just because you are in trouble.
 That is the hardest way to get put of 1t.
 It only adds to . golfers diff. culty and score.