A GOLFERS CLUBS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 15

A GOLFERS CLUBS.

POINTS IN SELECTION. THE LIE OF THE BRASS*. (srscuLLT warms roa "in am.") (By Harry Yardon. 6 tines op*n Champion.) A Yorkshire golfer has written to me on tho question of tho "lift*' of clubs. By "Ho" is meant tho angk* which the shaft makes with tho grand when the club is soled behind tho halt in the ordinary manner of tho aeV dress before tho shot. The enhject ta one of considerable importance. My correspondent says:—"l do not think that in 'How to Play Golf *(whkh I have read four times with yist benefit) you make any emphatic pro* noanoement on the matt tit save as regards the wooden dubs. I should like, therefore, to know if you advise having the same lie on tho driver, brassie, deck, iron, and r»inmV I presume the niblick and patter are laws unto themselves." In the volume to which reference w made, I have strongly reooaweaded tho player to sec thai bis driver and brassie are of exactly tho same length and lie, and the more experience I oh* tain of golf the deeper awn mj faith in the value of this hint. So far as I have been able to judge, it is the brassie that provokes the greatest misgiving among the major* itv of moderate performers: they live in such mortal dread of banghng % shot with it that they are invariably chary of using it. And yet frequently it is tho very club that they Bead most at what are known as twunhnt holes, because they are not such long hitters from the tee as their brethren of the plus and scratch departments. In many cases, the caase of their mistrust and failure is that they hare a brassie of a different lie from tho driver. It is either a little more «p» right or a little natter. Their natural instinct is to stand far it in the same way as for tho driver, and, as a consequence, either the ton or tho heel of the brassie is eh* the ground when the dob-head is pawed behind the ball preparatory to the ae> complishment of the stroke. The action is so brief that its detalb amy escape notice, bat I am < wwiimed the) many brassie shots are missed beea«ks. owing to the discrepancy in tho ho of the wooden clubs, either tho too of tho brassie is cooked into the air dwpg the address or is nearer to tho grand than the heel. The fall length of the sole should be capable of bong, lOJftoi on the ground just as it m with tho driver. ~ *

Length and Stanee, In regard to iron clubs, Ida aafc agree with those who say that has* also the lies should be exactly *flfc» same. The shorter the dob the ■»• upright it should be, inaeanek 1 a* m comnels' one to stand a little aansW to the ball. The lie of the fit** V* be the closest approach to tins af fife wooden clubs. The dtferaace w3 a* very small indeed, but it wifl to fast sufficient to allow one to stand a tanfa nearer to the ball, as one aheaU m, for the "cleek than for the drhar ar the brassie. There will be only » SBMB disparity in the - fie of any two instruments in the* taffc but it is a sound rale to lay dewm that the shorter the elub the elaaar the player should stand to the ball i* atiar not to have to stretch his ana asms*fortably during the address. As a rule the cleek is a little shatter than the driver, the iron a Httlr shatter than the cleek, and the naaUa- a aWftt storter than the iron. These fraApa* tions are for the eonunea sped aAj^B**;;. .as the golfer remeaUiem to trifle on the ball for every iaek'tllipp lacking in the length of'the : -aaaft£|E|tel when he is standing nearer, as a matter of course that, the ! the dab should he', more upright, so as' to eaaWa ground the full extant of the-'Bass* afp 'the elnb during the address, '■ f *%mff This latter is an important paint thaf applies to every shot I '' witto allowed to ground*. It aasa|a|» &| command over the .ntnatiea>awW<|i>f impossible when half of tte asla hi af the turf; for, unless the ' genius and something of-a half of it will still be "e« tlto' is strikes the ball. "* ' S^lfeJ About the BalL ;■•'■'■ ;';?||| Another writes on the subject of the balL, . ■ presses the opinion that "the '*MHJHpi of the Boyal and Ancient body possessing the decision in all golf legislation, rejecting 'the proposal 'e§ Soles Committee' to larger and lighter tlu«' that common nse. -;v;'^'lftf»?j He flays that,- if- the- away galfjy , ,| "with a handicap, of - 1 to 24"—only'laew'fc y:, JHJMmKj tain better resalts xVaa», than that which at' pTa»eat ; field, as a fashion. jgei»oaajffi|||j|gp The ordinary culties, especially "'at^a'' the' year when tto heavy, by placing his of 1.62 inches iiMmein:: using it as a hsbit, h>*. makes it lie so, closely that in the majority J« has to-dig deeply into-the it on its way. And V dig like a powerful Arthur Havers.type, who (WMataOTgi liberty without being cheejaf : liß«^ The moderate golfer is *ata>-*M§*A%:: vised to give bis toast to a than the legal minhaanv gested by the Jtotas diameter of 1.68 inches, just sufficient of an inereaee "m;jSp*-!; to make the ball sit ap lgMg*gr nestle down is admirably ■■tt«i#^R c ; great majority of golfers, a»»an»::|pt4 on the hard ground that three or four months of can secure a greater run wna aps •aaiai-?-The real crux of the qaestlaa la Oat the younger and 'stronger 'jlayensßto 7 the small ball, beeaase they-*#»V*P> ; , Btrength to hack it «***M&£WS.] and make the most of ito to give distance it feaa 2 'aasat lifted into the air. 1'■ jjaMfrg convinced, however, tlttt ntawjra IjWfr' : ! handicap player would iaqpave hqr using the bigger ball. He has Jbat ft make sure of lifting it.