A NEW GOLF THEORY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3480, 14 December 1926, Page 11

A NEW GOLF THEORY

WHAT IS THE FIRST PHYSICAL movement? (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Nov. 1. For some time golfers have been trying to discover what is the first physical movement in the stroke. What is it that supplies the motive power? No one has studied this most interesting point more closely than Mr G. W. Beldam, the old Middlesex cricketer, who was responsible for W. G. Grace taking up the game towards the end of his cricket Mr Beldam has written a most advanced book on the question, and ho has tried to support the theory ho arrived at by slow motion pictures. He came to the conclusion that the power which set the hands moving was generated by the hips, or in other words the pivot. At the same time ho pointed out that in the case of some players, Walter Hagen, Miss Joyce Wethcrcd, and one or two others, there was a marked bracing of the muscles of the legs before the hands moved. Georgn Duncan, another pronounced theorist, has been working on this point for two years, and ho has now arrived at a slightly different conclusion. The professional deeiares that the club should be taken hack with the same sort, of action as if one were going to throw a stone. In doing this the hands must move two or three inches before the clubhead starts to shift hack from .tho ball, and Duncan says that this movement of tho hands is readily set up by lifting the left heel slightly, He further points out that by this operation the club is taken hack parallel to (ho ground for six inches or more, and that in this way the margin for error is increased. The hands-first movement is not now. Vardnn and other players have practised it, naturally, but so far It has not been definiloly known how it was best attained.