LESSONS IN GOLF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 7

LESSONS IN GOLF

WHAT AMERICANS TAUGHT

Now that the big golf event of the centenary has ended, players are busily engaged in trying to put into effect the lessons they learned from tho American and other cracks they saw in action, says a Victorian writer. In every clubroom you hear discussions on the new methods. This man is trying to "slug " the ball with a fast, quick hit instead of, as he terms it, " beating the air " in a swing that he now thinks was too full for his particular style of play. Another is concentrating on gripping the club more effectively and on playing the stroke principally with the hands. Flat swings are going to be popular in future if what one hears is any indication; the ideal sought is a low-flying ball that keeps dead on line, with neither pull nor slice. How Harry Cooper chipped in, how Paul Kunyan used his hips in playing a spoon shot, how Lafioon studied the line of the putt from both angles—these are the sort of topics on which there are endless arguments, and presumably it is all for the good of the game.