GOLF RESEARCH ARCHIVE 2011 - 2022 - Cure To A Slice At Impact OGF12 Left hand Must Bear Back The Sum Total = Good Golf
"I should like, first of all, to say that it is not the grip that makes the champion. But at the same time I strongly insist that there is too much of the overlapping grip amongst the bulk of golfers to-day. It is a fashion, and a good fashion, but not one to be slavishly followed. I like "swipe" better than "sweep," because "swipe" has something of "hit" in it."Sandy Herd
THE GOLF RESEARCH ARCHIVE
2011 - 2022
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"Just before the moment of impact, the right hand and right arm begin to take charge of the swing and the wrists uncock. One great principle is that the fingers, wrists and forearm supply the motive power necessary to propel the ball. It must also be remembered that great physical strength is not necessary. Any power applied by the shoulder is wasted effort. Firmness of finger-grip, and firmness of the wrists and forearms are necessary to prevent looseness of hitting. It is the left-hand wrist and forearm that guide the direction, and the left side braced against a straight left leg as the ball is hit."Craig Wood
Download : "Here is the greatest mistake of all in golfing theory... It is not correctto sweep"the whole lot" through."and "...he will use 85 per cent. wrists and 15 per cent. arms and shoulders to produce his maximum impact speed... one of America's foremost instructors, gives the same figures in his estimate of the way the power is applied... implies effort, will power and resistance, for the golf-club is more or less a lever and the left hand resists the hit of the right hand."Henry Cotton The British Newspaper Archive 'Facts and Ideas', Sport & Country, 24.1.51 Open Champion 1934, 1937 and 1948
"Keep the wrists fully cocked until the hands are about waist-high. This is the hitting area, and now is the time to uncock the wrists so that the club-head accelerates to maximum speed at impact - To produce straight shots, the face of the club must at impact be square to the ball and to the intended line of flight. At the moment of impact in the orthodox swing the left arm is straight and the right arm close into the body. Both hands should now be used fully, to give maximum speed to the club-head."Bill Cox
Download : "It is all very well to say 'sweep the ball away'. But no golf ball was ever sent a long way without some sort of resistance creeping into the swing - without hitting past the body and allowing the clubhead to overtake the hands... Now what sort of resistance can be found? I have played with the maximum amount of hands and arms in my swing all my life, ..." HENRY COTTON My Golfing Album Country Life Limited London Published in 1959
"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, Musselburgh, Scotland, 1897, 1907, 1922, 1930 and 1934
Download : "9. At the point of contact, the right hand will have caught up with the left. This will bring the club face squarely into the ball."'GOLF FOR WOMEN ILLUSTRATED PATTY BERG' CHAPTER 5 Wrist and Hand Action Golf for Women: Illustrated by PATTY BERG with 96 action photographs CASSEL & COMPANY LTD. LONDON First published in Great Britain 1951 Made and printed in Great Britain at the Pitman Press
Download : 'The Speed Sector of The Golf Swing' "At impact, club head, hands and player's head will all be in line." ORIGINAL GOLF FUNDAMENTALS By The Dunns of Musselburgh, Scotland, 1897, 1907, 1922, 1930, 1934
Download : "With the strong left arm I have, I am able to hit past my left wrist and can actually control the flight of my ball by regulating the point at which I brake (not break, note) my left arm and allow my wrists to throw."'MY SWING' HENRY COTTON Open Champion 1934, 1937, 1948, London Country Life Limited Published in 1952
Download : "Seymour Dunn, the professional at the Lake Placid Club, broke the record of the course, his own, by going around in 38, 34 - 72." THE AMERICAN GOLFER 1912 November Vol. 9 No. 1 p. 18-33 Page 29
Download : 'The Golfer. Dunn. Seabreeze Pro, Has Background Of Golf' Beach Florida Journal, Friday, Jan 13, 1939 "One of five golfing sons of a Scotch golfing father. Seymour Dunn, the new local pro started his golf schooling under his father's tutelage at the age of five Bob was born in the United States but he is as Scotch as the heather and the haggis, and his golf game would delight the heart of the most dour member of St. Andrews. Dunn possesses what is recognised as one of the most powerful drives in golf." Source : site:google.com/newspapers "seymour dunn"
"As far as applying power goes, I wish that I had three right hands! On a full shot you want to hit the ball as hard as you can with your right hand. But this is only half the story. If you hit hard with only the right and let the left go to sleep, you will not only lose much valuable power, you will also run into all the errors that result when the right hand overpowers the left. The average golfer's problem is not so much a lack of ability as it is a lack of knowing what he should do. The left is a power hand too."William Benjamin Hogan
