SLOW MOTION GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 15

SLOW MOTION GOLF.

WHAT THE FILM REVEALS* THE EXPOSURE OF FAULTS"It is being freely suggested that the methods to-day of many of our professional golfers, and particularly the younger ones, are far from sound/' says a writer in an English sporting paper. ... "I ain inclined to agree, though it is as well to remember that the best teachers of the game are by no means necessarily the best players, or the reverse. I hmve in mind more than one professional whose style of playing does not appeal to me as first-class, yet they are very, highly regarded as teachers. I am inclined to suggest that golf is the most complicated and difficult of all games to teach, and I am not at all sure that we—l mean our best players and teachers —have learned all there is to be learned about the game. "Slow-motion pictures have done 7Cty much to elucidate past mysteries, and will do more. Harry Vardon has always been regarded, and always will be regarded, as the classic example of the complete golfer, hut it cannot be questioned that if he were to rewrite the famous book of bis h® would, in the light of lessons taught by the pictures, drastically remodel many of his theories. Slow-motion pictures hava decided beyond any possible question that quite a number of important theories which have long been accepted are incorrect. In other words, even our best players and theorists have not been doing that which they believed they were doing. The sequel may be a very unpleasant shock for him, but it will, be immensely helpful and even more interesting"l cannot imagine anything more calculated to fascinate a keen golfer than a film showing in slow motion the fall repertoire of his strokes. Give him sach a film, and the means to screen it, and the problem of how to keep a man at home at nights will be solved 1 He will never tire of watching himself thus play a round of golf, and, however great the disillusionment he may suffer, he will acquire an immense amount of valuable information. "It is hardly more important ta know just what one should do than to know exactly what should be avoided. Such pictures will reproduce with painful fidelity all his mistakes, and, if he be an intelligent player, convey to him more helpful information than hours with a professional under existing conditions. "I cannot be unique in the difficulty I hava always experienced in assimilating the advice and explanations I have received from professional players, and in putting into practice the tips they have given me. But two very full and comSlete films showing exactly how Bobby ones, for example, plays all his shots, and how i play all mine, would not only be fascinating in the extreme, but immensely . . helpful. It is even possible that a new White Hope might arise to assist in bringing back the cup to this country!"