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Massie Miller, popular Instructor at the Tipton golf course, has furnished this paper with a series of twen- y ty-four golf les-! sons for the be-j ginner, as well as the more sea-M1LLER. soned player.These lessons, giving the essentials of golf in E all its departments, are designed to create more interest in the game.PLAYING THK SHORT IRONS.These Irons with their shorterthshafts and deeper blades should be even * easier to play than those favorite mashies, and they will be too if we don't tighten up and try to give the 'ball just that right amount of power and steer them for the pin.Of course I am speaking of the full shot with the No. 7 or No. 8 iron and not the run up or chip shot, and more of these shots are ruined by babied” shots than from any other cause. So play them boldly and depend more on the lofts to take care of the distance, but don’t let those lofts induce you to scoop, for this shot is more decidedly a downwardly hit shot than even the mashies were, and always plajTlhem right on the pin and your downwardly struck ball won’t roll away.To correctly play this shot, place your feet as your pro has advised — remember about the square or open stance and by all means use it here for your arms must have a clear path to go down and through. Be sure your feet are comfortably close to- gf gether so that your weight is jsj, evenly distributed on both feet.The ball should 'be well back hi towards the right foot; align the Pi ball carefully on the pin and with a straight left arm start the club S1 head back. Allow the left knee|c* to bend slightly, hut do not dip it or throw the preponderance of weight on the right leg, for this is a hand and arm shot and very little turn or pivot is needed. Keep the right elbow well into the body and when the backward | swing starts to pull the elbow out | start cocking the wrists; your hands on the short iron shot do not need to go above the shoulder.So remembering to hit down and through and to finish the shot by letting the club head go through, you may start your downward stroke 'by starting tobrace the left leg and to bringthe right elbow into the body—the wrists uncock—you lash into theball.Right here’s where many otherwise perfectly hit approach shots g6 wrong— so read this carefully:No one has ever invented a self returning golf ball so there is just no percentage in your looking up to see how close are. Just keep those shoulders and head right down where they were until the momentum of the follow through pulls them up, and don’t try to stop that club bead either—let it fly through and you'll do all right.ofh lt;
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Tipton Daily Tribune
Tipton, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 01, 1940
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