WANGANUI INDIES’ CLUB

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 4

WANGANUI INDIES’ CLUB

L.G.U. CORONATION MEDAL. AOTEAROA CUP DRAW. , The following are the best scores i handed in by members " the Wanganui Ladies’ Golf Club for the L.G.U. Coronation Medal and the Aotearoa Cup:—

LIFTING THE HEAD CAUSE AND EFFECTS FALLACIOUS CATCHWORD 7 It has long been my opinion that •’juu lilted jour head” is une of thojc fallacious goil’ing uatchwurds that mean precisely nothing at all, aays Maxwell Hutchison. The idea, of course, is Nat in my eagerness to observe the result I of my snot 1 have looked up bvfure | the club actually reached the ball, and m so doing have missed my aim or | disturbed my balance, to the undoing of my stroke. Now 1 like to believe that 1 play golf vvibh my head, in the technical sense, but it would take a good deal to convince me that my head was such an important factor in the actual swing. It may quite well appear to the casual observer, caddie, or opponent, that 1 have been guilty ui looking up too soon. What they fail to appreciate is that looking up too soon is the result, not the cause uf the bad shot, and that the parrot-cry i- s of no help whatever as a diagnosis of the real lault. 1 should say that “head up’’ is near Jy always due to one or other of two things. Occasionally the player does look up too soon, but he does so because he is subconsciously aware of some error in the swing, and is anxious to sec just how bad the result is going to be. But it is the original ciror, and not the looking up, that is the cause of the failure of tho stroke, lu the more common case the player ‘‘lifts his head” lor the simple reason that in every stroke he is accustomed to look up as his body swings roun.i to tace the hole. When his timing is bad, and the body turn gets ahead of t’he rest of the swing, the head comes up before the club reaches the ball, and in this case “head up” is only an indirect result ol bad timing, and 1 doubt very much if bad timing can be cured merely by keeping your bead down. The idea of “keeping the head down” or “keeping the head still,” has taken many different forms. For in.stanee, it has not escaped the attention of the theorists that both Bobby Jones end Waiter Hagen have a trick oi cocking their heads a little to the right iu addressing the ball. One or two other famous golfers have the same habit for wb’.ch various explanations have been suggested. A plausible one is that it is the left eve rather than t’he right which the golfer ought to keep on the ball, and that al] the best playe JB are left-eyed. Bobby Jones hi mad f appears to consider this “left-eyed address” is no

Coronation Medal. Mrs. WooDains 97 1 7—80 Miss Ziosier JOI 1G—85 Miss Birth ..... 91 8—86 Mrs. Power 103 17—8G M rs. Young 93 5—88 Mrs. (|ace 97 9—88 Aotearoa Cup. Miss Norman 105 31 — 74 Mrs. Rvall 94 19—75 Mrs. Barton 113 i'll 1 o Miss Collier 9S 19—79 Mrs. Keesing ..... 109 29—So Mrs. Harvey 105 21—81 M iss (He nil 117 36—81 Mrs. Hutchison 101 19—82 Mrs. D. Wilson 118 36 b2