"It is a hard game, mighty hard, if you have to learn all these little factors from experience, but if the player can get the right idea in his mind the shots are not difficult to play. That is why so many golfers in talking about the game keep saying, "It is all mental," as though there was some mysterious gift which made a golfer of a man. I never took much stock in any method of playing a stroke which could not be explained, and I think the average golfer is built the same way. Of course, after a thousand attempts with as many different schemes for playing a shot, and still without success, a player is apt to despair, but he should not. Any man of average intelligence and physique can play shots as well as the best of them if he can get the correct basis to work upon in his head." Marshall Whitlatch 1910, 1921
Download : "The reason why many players "slice" is because they either do not have strong hands or they fail to use their hand strength at the critical moment when the power of the stroke is to be transmitted to the ball. The majority of players who fail in transmission of power, do so because their left hand fails to act as a fulcrum for the right hand to strike against. The left hand has to bear back against the right." ORIGINAL GOLF FUNDAMENTALS Transmission of power By the Dunns of Musselburgh East Lothian Scotland 1897 1907 1922 1930 1934. Reprint edition by Apollon Verlag GmbH, 8 Munchen 22, Stollbergstrasse 15, 1974
Download : "As the club nears the hitting area - the impact area - the wrists are uncocked, and hand action takes over through the shot. At impact, the back of the left hand and the palm of the right hand are pointing down the line that parallels the line of flight. Right back to the position from which they started at the address." 'inside golf for women' 1977 by Patty Berg Chapter 6 The Swing (Keep the Line in Mind) At impact page 29
"There are many golfers who do very little back-swing, a half-swing almost, and then do little or no follow through with the arms, and yet succeed in hitting the ball a long way. This always grieves their less athletic golfing companions, who, with long flowing orthodox actions, are unable to emulate these "unorthodox" golfers, and many of them are of the opinion, I often hear, that there is a secret. I often hear, too, this "secret" described as "timing". I like to feel that I hit the ball hard, but disguise the hit in a swing as much as possible; a sloppy sweep through the ball gives very limited results." Henry Cotton

Download : "... I was especially interested in that one common factor that stood out: the way the guys maintained the same hand-wrist formation at the end of the swing as at the beginning. But I couldn't figure out how they did it. ..." 'THE NATURAL GOLF SWING' GEORGE KNUDSON With Lorne Rubenstein Illustrated by Neil Harris First published in paperback 1989 THE INTERNET ARCHIVE

WALTER J. TRAVIS SAYS:
"THE HANDS IN A WAY REALLY WORK IN OPPOSITION TO EACH OTHER ...
NOT DISCERNIBLE TO THE EYE"
Download : "the hands in a way really work in opposition to each other at the crucial moment, the moment that counts, that of impact between the club-head and the ball, the left arm stopping at the wrist for an infinitesimal fraction of a second as the ball is struck, accelerating the speed of the clubhead. This momentary stoppage is not discernible to the eye, but it exists just the same." Walter J. Travis, 1920. U.S. Amateur Champion 1900, 1901, 1903. British Amateur Champion 1904. Cuban Amateur Champion 1913, 1914. LA84 Foundation
"As the left is the hand which imparts the main force in the swing, and keeps the club from the slightest variation during the stroke, its hold should be firm and ... The right hand, on the contrary, is the guiding power that directs the force exerted by the left, and therefore takes only ..." The Golfer's Handbook CHAPTER III. HINTS FOR BEGINNERS By Robert Forgan, M. A. EDINBURGH : JOHN MENZIES & Co. 1890 Digitized by Google
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