GOLF.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 16

GOLF.

c Commenting on the advice to begint ners to .keep the seft arm as straight i> las possible in making iron shots, an d English writer says: This principle of , r "the straight left" in connection with. 3 iron shots is nothing new, although poox) siily it has not received a-11 the aitenp tion that it deserves. I believe that its a ' value ts*3s recognised by the champions c' of previous generations, and old-time St. ~ I Andrews' golfers will tell you about s; what they used to regard a≤ the "push >. ■ snot"—a very different stroke from the jf'ODe irfiich has token poeeeseion of tiat j ; titie dtiring re<»nt years, bat which c esem-plified the appreciation of the n straisht-ieft theory. It was a very low !-! ehot; the baH rose oniy two or three 3,' Tards into 'tiie air, and rair a±>otLfc tbdrtv t- yards on pitching. It was made, ac , Mr c . S. Mare Fergiisson, Alexander Herd, ,f Andrew Kirkaidy, and other of its exX. ponents esplain, by keeping both aims jj neaiJy etraight. They ■were simpiy taJcen B . back with tent wrists that kept th* r,f d*al>lie2ui close to the ground, aod thee ie pudied straigjit thxougli at the ball re most of the power coming from thf tt sioiddere. It was a shot that exatitj c- BUited St. Andrens; it -R-ould never ba.v< =d tieen of rraich use on the average Eng it- iish course, for Tsdiile England adoptee cc the St. Andrews' example of toavinj he eighteen holes she copied little else ii n- the >way of links architerture from Scot Je land, and insisted from eariy days 01 re having putting greens guarded insteac U] of presenting open approaches. Conse α-f quently pitching was a necessity fron the outset, and this flit shot made wit!