GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 3 June 1914, Page 7

GOLF.

-l gelling expert, writing recently in ■1 i.Jiidon paper -aid:—"Mr Oui-met is unquestionably a golfer of groat possibilities. If I may plead length of ex-pciitiu-e as justification for 'oileriug -advice to the young champion who beat me, I wou.d remark to Mr Ouimet that ali he now needs to do i* to effect a ■viiiyrt alteration in the way in which he executes his iron shots 1 . * Jlia avoodenclub play i s admirable; be swings th--< right length in the right way, for he has not fallen a victim to! the American habit of swinging flat so as to try for a long run—a hazardous procedure anywhere, and especially risky on the much bunkered English courses. His drive (lies at about medium height, and is nearly all any, which 1 submit, is the best and safest kind of tee shot. Ilia short approaches are very line, and he appears, to be a born putter. "From the golfing point of yiew the mc-it interesting tiling about Mr Ouimet is the way in which he grips the clubs. I have seen nothing like it in this, country, and he told me afterwards that he did nut know of anybody eNe in America who gripped in the' same manner. It is not easy to de-cribe. The club is practically held in the four fingers of the left hand and three of the right. The I little linger of the latter hand is placed between the first and second fingers oi the left, the thumb of which presses at bhc knuckle into what.'he calls the heel of the right thumb—the part that is level -with the bull of that thumb. Mr Ouimet tells, me that until four years ago be adopted the old-fashioned palm grip. Then he came '.» the cimclusion, a- m : e,sl of the leading professionals in Kngland li.ive done, flint a linger grip would be. ill-tier, and he evolved 'this one, which not only makes no ii- ; e 0 f ■the palms but even limits I lie use of flic thumbs, lie has a ><|iiaiv stand and a full swine; that is admir.ib\v under control a.ll the'while. !!■■ drives'with a straight-face brassy and hits some remarkably long shots with it.