Lesson #15 MORE ABOUT THE IRONS

You read the sport writers report on Jimmy Demaret's fine iron shots into a roaring
gale, then when anything more than a mild zephyr blows across the fairway you floun-
der and worry and press your hearts out, and we have to let you do it. Because of
the many many lessons I have given I can count on a very few fingers the members

who have asked me to help them defeat head wind, tail wind, or cross wind; yet a
golf ball flys through the air just as an aeroplane, and any pilot will tell you
plenty about how he allows for drift.

Jimmy Demaret is probably the greatest of the present day wind jammers. If you
watch him play into the wind you'll see him take a number three iron for a normal
number four iron shot and toe it in slightly, or in golfing language - close the
blade, and then with a shorter back swing he'll stroke the ball smoothly just as if
he were playing on a mild summer day. You won't find any fine player duiiasas
because it's windy, or making any seemingly conscious effort to overcome the wind.
But if you watch closely you'll see a two iron played with a three quarter swing
right at the pin.and by hitting it firmly with the toe slightly in - the ball will
bore right at the pin.

Trying to allow for cross winds with a left to right shot and vice versa is a
scientific fine golfers! shot, and as often as not the wind velocity changes while
the ball is in mid air. So beware unless your course is constantly subject to more
than norina.L winds and then see your pro and practice constantly. For the desired
amount of hook or slice is getting down to the really fine points of the science
of the game, and I take it you're playing mostly for the fun of it, and my first
tip on hitting them with a closed blade and a three quarter swing will get vou by

most of the time,