Lesson el TROUELE SHOTS

Golf trouble shots spell the difference between low scores and the heart breaking
sevens and eights that send you on to the next tee with that "to heck with it"
feeling and may cause you to play several sloppy shots before the zest of scoring
returns to you. So for that alone, it is well worth pe to practice and
take lessons on those tough recovery shots, for as you Imow when one comes out
well and you see that look of pain on your opponent's face, the world is bright
and you <o on and on playing better even than you kmow how.

So let's try that one out of the dees grass on the slope of a sand trap, first
we must stand unevenly our left foot is higher but we must try to get firmly set.
The right foot is slightly advanced, in other words, an open stance so that the
arms may clear the body and you can get a full follow through. You may not be
thorovehly comfortable for youre not a mountain goat, but take your time and get
set as well as possible for this shot must not be hurried.

Since the bell is deep in the grass open your blade slightly and hit down
crisply and go on through fast. The grass between the ball and the blade will
cause a bit of run so allow for it and practice this shot at least twenty times
the next time you go out, no that you will perfect it that quickly but having

practiced it - it won't give you those mental yips the next time you're in that

spot.

 
Tesson #22 MORE AROUT TROUBLE SHOTS

Another tough place you may find vourself is under over hanging limbs, behind a
tree or bush. You'll see many novice colfers walk right up and try to get away
with a shot that the best player in the world would be afraid to try. So unless
you have plenty of room or plenty of time for practice the very best way to play
this shot is safe. Take a deep face club and pitch it back on the fairway even
though you may have to hit back toward the tee rather than the green, and then
play your next one well and make up for it. Buf if you do have time and do like
to execute one of these tough ones occasionally, learn to make the punch shot with
a closed face three or four iron. This shot is made just like it sounds by punching
the ball. Just ster into the pro shop for a minute and ask how it's done. When
you get the idea try it, it's fun when it's accomplished, and fun for the other

fellow when it fails.

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Lesson $23 SCRAMBLING

You've heard tournament players say, "I outplayed him, but he won". Golf scores
sometimes don't really indicate the better player since it is commonly known that
the par four holes are supposed to consist of a drive, an approach, and two putts,
é0 what the first player usually means is that he hit the most greens in the required
two blows but that the other fellow scrambled out.

Scrambling is a mighty important part of the average player's game, for to
score in par he must either be uncannily accurate with his second shots or play
his third shot close enough to get down in one vutt.

Most 85 to 90 shooters are grand golfers but for that extra putt which give
them fives where they might set fours.

It takes a great deal of golf to hit those greens in two. But it takes mostly
practice on these short scrambling shots which make the one putt an easy one.

Since it doesn't take great skill and it doesn't take strength most elderly
golfers have perfected this short game.

The shots you'll need to lmow are: the explosion shot from sand, the short
niblick pitch over rough or trap, the run wp shot off of the apron, and the chip
shot out of the surrounding whiskers of the green.

Once the proper method on each of these is learned, you can miss the more

difficult long second shot and still score with the club champion.
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tnpeen #54 7 FUN OUT OF GOLF Ve

Golf is fun, not just mild amusement, but up roaring side splitting fun may be
had when four good fellows get together, So if these lessons left you under the
impression that golf is an exact science and entirely too difficult, we are sorry.
We wish you would drop into the club and tell us so, then perhaps with a way
simple explanation we can clean up the shot that's bothering you,

As your wel my job is to help you have more fun, and I only want \
to teach you so that vou may get your share of the fun of winning.

If that is your desire then you'll lick this game much ezsier. I Imo it's
healthy but so t spinach, but I don't believe the spinach growers have hired any ; ne
Spinach auctioneers or bought much space in this paper while the boys who make and
sell many of the less healthy things do. So we must buy them because we enjoy
then.

So think of golf as something that can be really enjoyable, play it for fun
and get the fun of winning by knowing how the shot should be played. You'll find
this to be our most valuable lesson, for it's « game you play, a game and if you
don't believe se consult your dictionary on the words game and play - then look

up fume, fuss, fret, and worry, and you've got it.

 
 

General Suggestions for Improvement of the University of
Kensas, Six-Hole Sand-Green Golf Course Offered for Doctor
Allen's Approval by Bill Winey, Jr-

No. I Hole
The present location of the tee is fine for the golfer who can
use a lofty club to reach the green, but those who cannot reach
the green with a lofty club will, as a rule, hit the tree and

therefore be penalizede I therefore suggest the tee be moved
about twenty feet north of its present location.

The green is in bad condition and should be raked free of the

rocks and other impediments which should not be there. If the
ground eround the green in a twenty-foot radius were mowed, I

am sure it would be appreciated by the golfers.

The cup is still useable and the rake is alsoe

No. 2 Hole
The present location of the tee is fine.
The sand is a little dry, but a little oi1 will remedy thise
The trench above the west side of the green could be dug 4
little deeper in order to keep the water from washing down
onto the green.

No. 3 Hole

Green in bad condition-tee needs leveling off.

No. 4 Hole

Green in very bad shape-needs oi] and more sand.

No. 5 Hole
Tee in good shapeebecause no fine tee shot will not be seen
by the player, it is easy to lose a ball. Therefore, it might
help if this fairway was kept cut short and clean--the green
is in very bad shape.

No. 6 Hole

Green in best condition of any--a little oil will be needed and
it will have to be raked.

Incidental Suggestions

There is a need for some method of designating the layout of
the course along with stetistics of the yardage. All greens

will be raked and cleaned.

 
An approximate guess on the oil required can be said to be
twenty-two gallons of oil--and one load of sand should be
‘plenty to re-cover bare spots in the greens.

If this letter of suggestions meets the approval of Doctor
Allen, then plans can be made to get to work as quickly as
possible.

My Schedule is:

Mondey-10:30-1:30

Tuesday-& :30-9:50-10:350:2: 30
Wednesday-10;350-1:350
Thursday-8 :30-9:30:10:30:2:30
Friday-10:30-1:30

Thank you,

Bill Winey, Jr. 9/22/41

 
 
 
From: Research Laboratory of
A.G. Spalding & Bros. Inc.
Chicopee, Mass.

EXPLANATION OF "STING" PHOTOGRAPH

The picture represents a topped iron shot
in which contact has been made with the ball at the sole
of the club, well below the center of gravity of the
club head. In the first position immediately after con-
tact it will be noted that a quite perceptible bend has
been produced in the lower half of the shaft. The uni-
form intervals between successive positions of the grip
end of the club up to this point indicate that the accel-
eration of the grip end has been smooth,

In the second position after contact, the bend
of the shaft has progressed as far as the lower end of
the grip; and in the third picture it has reached the
hands, The widening of the interval between successive
pictures of the grip end of the shaft indicate the very
rapid acceleration in this end which produces the sting-
ing slap on the player's hand, The effect of this ac-
tion is further confirmed by the fact that a player
feels a mis-hit iron shot in the hand in contact with
the advancing (or front) part of the grip. If the club
is gripped properly, this is the left hand: the club
Slaps forward against this hand rather than backward
against the right.
 

GOLF BALL IMPACT SEQUENCE

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My dpabding 31s, Inc.
Research Laboratoxy
Chicopee, Massachusetts
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From: Research Laboratory of
A.G. Spalding & Bros. Inc,
Chicopee, Mass,
EXPLANATION SINGLE FLASH PICTURES OF CONTACT BETWEEN

CLUB AND BALL IN AN ORDINARY HIGH POWERED DRIVE

The accompanying series of single-flash pictures illustrates
the sequence of contact between club and ball in an ordinary high-
powered drive. The club was swung by a driving machine and propelled
a Spalding Dot ball approximately 250 yards carry-and-run. The in-
itial contact, the flattening, and the recoil of the ball from the
club-face, can be clearly seen,

Notice that the ball reaches substantially its maximum
flattening before its front edge moves at all. Notice, too, that as
the ball is compressed horizontally, its vertical diameter elongates,
and similarly, as it reacts from the compression, in leaving the club,
the horizontal diameter is stretched, and the vertical shortened.
These pictures provide valuable clues to the stresses to which the
interior of the ball is subjected.

From other similar photographs made especially for quanti-
tative measurement, the following interesting facts have been
determined:

For the contact pictured here:
The total duration of contact was 0.00040 secs.
Time of compression was 0.0002 .
" "decompression (restoration

of ball) was 0.0002 .
Backspin (Loft of club 12 degrees)

at rate of 4800 revs. per min.
Velocity of ball leaving club was 258 ft. per sec.

. " club before impact was 162 . " .

7 . " after impact was LZS " . ‘
Diameter of ball at rest (standard) 1.68 inches
Maximum diameter of ball was i.7c .

Minimum . a" " . 1.56 .

During contact face of club moved 0.355 .
 

SWING NO. 1— AVERAGE GOLFER

GOLF SWING ANALYSIS

KY, Sratldug r1oro2 Inc.

50 PICTURES PER SECOND © 1940 A. G. S. & Bros. Inc.
From: Research Laboratory of
A. G. Spalding & Bros. Ine,
Chicopee, Mass.

COMPARISON OF GOLF SWINGS

SWING I is that of an ordinary golfer.
SWING Ii is mine,

"a" an each swing indicates path of backswing and
"Bl!" the topmost hand position in the backswing.

The following points are of interest:

(1) The arc of the backswing in II is much
wider than in I. This is brought about by a more come
plete extension of the left arm,

(2) This extension plus a more effective
wind-up of the hips brings the hands at "BM" noticeably
higher in Il than in I. The position in II is one of
greater potential power,

(3) The loop in the path of the club head
as the swing changes direction is apparent in II and
absent in I. In II the plane of the downswing has
dropped away from the camera so that the club head
may be brought upon the ball from inside the line of
flight. The radius of the downswing has been further
shortened by the retention of almost the full angle
of wristcock during the early stages.

(4) In the second half of the downswing, in
swing II the intervals between successive club posi-
tions are greater than in swing I because the uncock-~
ing of the wrists in this area contributes to contin-
ually increasing club head speed,

(5) In II the player has relaxed after mak-
ing the hitting effort and has allowed the momentum of
hig swing to carry his club well around his neck at the
finish, Swing I, being much shorter after impact indi-
cates that this player is stiil feeling tension,

Robert T, Jones, Jr,
From: Research Laboratory of
A.G. Spalding & Bros. Inc.
Chicopee, Mass.

EXPLANATION OF "STING" PHOTOGRAPH

The picture represents a topped iron shot
in which contact has been made with the ball at the sole
of the club, well below the center of gravity of the
club head, In the first position immediately after con-
tact it will be noted that a quite perceptible bend has
been produced in the lower half of the shaft. The uni-
form intervals between successive positions of thse grip
end of the club up to this point indicate that the accel-
eration of the grip end has been smooth,

In the second position after contact, the bend
of the shaft has progressed as far as the lower end of
the grip; and in the third picture it has reached the
hands, The widening of the interval between successive
pictures of the grip end of the shaft indicate the very
rapid acceleration in this end which produces the sting-
ing slap on the player's hand, The effect of this ac-
tion is further confirmed by the fact that a player
feels a mis-hit iron shot in the hand in contact with
the advancing (or front) part of the grip. If the club
is gripped properly, this is the left hand: the club
slaps forward against this hand rather than backward
against the right.
From; Research Laboratory of
A.G, Spalding & Bros. Inc.
Chicopee, Mass.
EXPLANATION SINGLE FLASH PICTURES OF CONTACT BETWEEN

CLUB AND BALL IN AN ORDINARY HIGH POWERED DRIVi

The accompanying series of single-flash pictures illustrates
the sequence of contact between club and ball in an ordinary high-
powered drive. The club was swung by a driving machine and propelled
a Spalding Dot ball approximately 250 yards carry-and-run. The in-
itial contact, the flattening, and the recoil of the ball from the
club-face, can be clearly seen,

Notice that the ball reaches substantially its maximum
flattening before its front edge moves at all. Notice, too, that as
the ball is compressed horizontally, its vertical diameter elongates,
and similarly, as it reacts from the compression, in leaving the club,
the horizontal diameter is stretched, and the vertical shortened.
These pictures provide valuable clues to the stresses to which the
interior of the ball is subjected.

From other similar photographs made especially for quanti-
tative measurement, the following interesting facts have been
determined:

For the contact pictured here:
The total duration of contact was 0.00040 secs.
Time of compression was 0.0002 .
" "decompression (restoration

of ball) was 0.0002 .
Backspin (Loft of club 12 degrees)

at rate of 4800 revs. per min.
Velocity of ball leaving club was 258 ft. per sec.

. "club before impact was 162 . a "

° " after impact was 125 ° " °
Diameter of ball at rest (standard) 1.68 inches
Maximum diameter of ball was 1,768 .
iWinimum . . " 1,56 .

During contact face of club moved 0.35 .
From: Research Laboratory of
A. G. Spalding & Bros. Inc,
Chicopee, Mass.

COMPARISON OF GOLF SWINGS

SWING I is that of an ordinary golfer.
SWING II is mine,

"a" gn each swing indicates path of backswing and
"Bl!" the topmost hand position in the backswing.

The following points are of interest:

(1) The are of the backswing in II is much
wider than in I. This is brought about by a more com-
plete extension of the left arm,

(2) This extension plus a more effective
wind-up of the hips brings the hands at 'B" noticeably
higher in II than in I. The position in II is one of
greater potential power.

(3) The loop in the path of the club head
as the swing changes direction is apparent in II and
absent in I. In II the plane of the downswing has
dropped away from the camera so that the club head
may be brought upon the ball from inside the Line of
flight. The radius of the downswing has been further
shortened by the retention of almost the full angle
of wristcock during the early stages.

(4) In the second half of the downswing, in
swing II the intervals between successive club posi-
tions are greater than in sewing I because the uncock-
ing of the wrists in this area contributes to contin-
ually increasing club head speed,

(5) In II the player has relaxed after mak-
ing the hitting effort and has allowed the momentum of
his swing to carry his club well around his neck at the
finish, Swing I, being much shorter after impact indi-
cates that this player is still feeling tension.

Robert T, Jones, Jr.