WHIG, BAIURDAY, 5AY 20, 1022. RT [HE DAILY BRITISH 1 RUMMY 70 RUGBY ee er ee ---- NEWS = BADMINTO v 70 'BOXING 4 No. 7--Putting. "The man who can putt is a match for anybody," is as true today As when Park coined the phrase. Park, White, Travers and Travis have all attained success more by their putters than by other dlubs. Indeed the latter won the British championship solely by his phenom- enal putting. Travia is a striking ex ample of what may be accomplishea by accurate short work. Never long from the tee (in fact there is one course on which he would rarely play because of the long carries), he more than recouped himgelt by accurate {work on the green. When one 'considers that par golf allows two putts to a green, and Assuming par 72, which is a high Average, putting accounts for just half the game - -&- proportionate va- lue which many think too hign. Other things being equal (which they never are) 800d or bad putting will affect the game because of Its proportionate value, more than any other shot. So it behooves the am- bitious golfer to study this depart- ment of the -game carefully, There 18 no reason why the duffer should not be as accurate as the most bril- Hant star (as indeed he often is even better). I have no panacea for getting the ball into the hole in one putt" But every golfer has hopes. I have a few observations which 1 think go to the root of the matter, frrespective of whatever system one uses. Putting is largely mental, and by this I do nof mean that it Is a question of nerve or courage and not even confidence, although to a-- complish anything one must believe it possible to do. But it is mental largely because its difficulties are created ons. Instead of treating the putt as an abbreviated shot and playing it largely the way we do the other shots on a smaller scale, the majority of golfers devise some sys- tem for putting and the more econi- plicated the system, the more en- thuslastically do they shout about it. Vardon himself has fallen into this pitfall when he speaks of putting as & "game within a game." poor putting is proverbial, but one . should remember it is only his short ,Putts. There is no better approach putter living than Vardon, and these he plays in a straight forward, sim- ple method, but the short ones he Jabs and stabs in an uncertain, agon- lzing manner. Whether he has any physical defect, as he supposes, is « doubtful-<at any rate it the putt is to be concelved as something dir- ferent from the rest of the game from our viewpoint, His mental con- ception is the defect. Putting is not question of nerve, The average man has average cour- age. It is unnatural to believe that the man with courage in everything else will not display it on the putting green, if he has the knowledge to putt and understands his fallure to do so. . There is the classical case of the ex-hunter who took up golf, who €ould not hole a two-tooter although he could and had faced the man- eating tiger with the knowledge that the least tremor of his finger meant his death, and he had not failed. There is another case of an ex-rughy star, noted for his courage on the field, who, after missing putt after putt, threw down his putter and ofr- ered to demonstrate his courage in _fistic combat with any or all of the gallery. It seems to me that the fail- ure of these men, like others, was _ due more to lack of knowledge than lack of nenve. True it fs that a per- . Son must have confidence in himself. One must. believe a putt is possible. The ideal is always to try to hole out 80 long as one 1s in range of tho _ Pin. Rarely should one be satisfied with "laying" dead, and indeed one Will more often be trying to hole out Se---- RN Mild Epidemic 5 - give Round It is due to impurities in the - Water, nes eramps, diarrhoea, headache * Those who take twenty @rops of Nervitine in sweetened Water usually get quick relief. It fs _ Mally wonderful how goo old Ner. villne fixes up a sour upset stomach, stops *¢0 , how quickly it puts a stop to ® nasty attacks of gas. - OF CANADA. - Vardons | And 1t's Minimum Essentials AMATEUR CHAMPION ythan if he generally tries to get near the hole. Of putting there are almost as {many styles as there are golfers; {men putt badly in all styles and well in all styles. Some advocate putting so with an open stance;. others putt with a closed one. Some putt witn the weight on the left foot; others with it"on the right; some pure standing straight - up: others purr standing erouched low, so that there Is little wonder that the beginner is perplexed by these different styles. The root of the whole matter of stance is that one should stand the way he feels the. most natural and the way in which he can the most easily see a line from his ball to the hole, for unless the player can see an Imaginary line from ball to hole, I don't see how he can tell when tha lelub is squarely behind the ball or lat right angles to this line. Some {players in getting the line, pick our (2 blade of grass a couple of feet {ahead ofthe ball on the line, and {then line 'the club up with thig. | Sometimes I did this in long putts, land anything which helps one ge! !direction accurately is to be recom - mended. . But usually I find looking at the hole sufficient. One should then stand comfortably. Off hand 1 (should say that this will be neither too straight nor too stooped, with the feet close together or too far apart, although in the particular {case it may be any or all of these. Usually players try to feduce | putting to an exact science by tak- {Ing up a mathematical stance. For |example,, the left toe pointing to "he | hole and' the right foot at right an- gles. The whole body is held rigid, |including the head. The arms are kept out of the shot. Every part of {the body becomes . 86t except tno [wrists, which take thé club back {with mathematical recision. Logie- jally one is impressed with these 8y3- items; they are so very plausible on paper, but ° they fail miserably fa | practice because they are first and {last artificial and unnatural meth- | ods. | The best putters are those who | putt-smoothly and easily, and it is impossible to putt, freely when every {pat of the body 1s set. The wnote | basis of putting is absolute relaxa- tion. The minute one "sets" himself is the moment he opens the door to all kinds of putting evils. ~ Is not the true reason then why one misses so many short putts due solely to this fact &r "setting" muas- cles. The short putt is 80 easy look- ling that we try 211 the harder to [hole 80 we may not appear ludicrous {1 we miss it and by trying so hard {we invariably tense ourselves. And {when we tense ourselves it becomes [so much more difficult to hit a true smooth blow, with. the result that We usually stab and jab and do other {numerous things. When one misses {an easy putt our anxiety causes us to become more careful, which usu- ally means becoming more tense, un- til finally it becomes impossible to hole out even it the hole were the size of a pail. Instead of setting ourselves as |statues, one should relax. Concen- trate on developing a smooth, easy stroke, and above all, try to hit the ball truly in the centre of the club. Few golfers realize how easy it 1s to miss-hit a putt. The results are not so glaring as in a miss-hit drive and for this reason one is apt to go on repeating; but failure on the green is more disastrous, for a miss- ed drive may be retrieved, but a missed putt is lost beyond recall. In gauging a putt we assume that if the ball is hit truly it will require 80 much strength, Now a topped ball Or a schiaffed ball will not run the same distance as a t Neither will 'a heeled ball nor a toed ball have the: same results as one hit In the centre of the club; so above all, watch the ball till the club strikes it fairly. So far as the mechanics of the swing are concerned, if one putts in the same way as he plays, the other shots, it should mean that the club will pass along the imaginary line before and after the ball is struck for some distance. The putter should pass along and inside this Ifne, but rarely, I think, if ever, outside of iz. ~ Some deliberately cut their putts, or Although it should pass inside the line, not, I think, in too sharp an | - SOME OLD One should check up his putting |Swing occasionally to see if it is ma- | {chanically correct. If the putt is me-' jchanically wrong, in all probability the rest of his shots are, unless he is [putting according. to some system... Queen's Un |Super-more we will proceed {the coast across the meadows and make our Burnh&m. Thy course is, |opinion, the best on the sout way |al Westward] Ho! the Ladies' tions. being made to remedy. this. | links are situated along the shore, and more or less surround sand hills. Several years ago villagers had a dispute with the club about certain sheep rights, but the difference wa ably settled by making all th in other words, - slice them. Others again try to putt with drag orback spin. Frankly, 1 strongly advise ! players not to attempt any of these refinements, for it is only making mething complex which is other- wise simple. Remember, the short- lest distance between two points, | Which for our purpose is the ban and the hole, is in a straight line. Then, of course, one should be up' jor give the hole a chance. There 'have been some good putters Who have d:xibbled the ball into the hole, {notably Kirkaldy and Travis when he jwon the British Amateur. But as a |general rule, golfers are faint-heart- 'ed on the putting green, ith this proviso, that usually in four-ball games one usually goes for the hole | so vigorously that even where di- jrection_is perfect the ball rarely goh- bles the hole because of its strength. (Copyrighted British and Colon- /itants honorary members of the Club. ial Press, Limited.) Next Article: Common Faults. feeling---Golf is the sport of all from the age of three upwards, and many good professionals have had their early training at Burnham. There is no golf course wind is more constant, an extremely violent the sea.at right angles to th direction of the holes. Th hills are large and irregular {Ramsay to Coach U. of T. Hockeyists? d at times, That, Beatty, Ramsay, the great de- fense player of the University of To- ronto hockey team, will reside in To- ronto, now appears to be assured. It is reported that Ramsay will not play | i t as coach of the | again, su will act a c {short But rarely if ever has a player re- Summer, thie. condition of the t tired when at his best, and it ig not | 811 that a goiter San Jesire. {likely that Ramsay can resist the | The J AR > 3 BY lure of the eport. In fact, the officers | /@Wn of the Club House lot one club.announced some time ago | Sa, and presents a k oa {o | through a narrow nec ! Numa weld rerun 10 Toronto cupped green beyond, On ordinary . days with the strong, steady sea- Ramsay 'and Sunto gfe Tegerled fe it 18 a two shot hole, but it can [38 the beat detense men in the O. H. be reached on a quiet evening with IA. and professional clubs would a fine drive. I hear that this hole ike to secure their services. Munro is to be, abandoned apd Yo-COnsiraoL. may eventually lake the leap, but {ed to lengthen the course. there is little danger of Ramsay do- | The second hole is the most diffi- ing Hkewise, He is an engineer now cult on the course--a long drive pare employed by the Transportation jallel to the sea passes between the Commission. two huge sand mountains to a wid ening undulating hollow. The sec- ond shot must be played blind over |a perfect cliff of soft sand and spiky { grass, and if perfect, will be re- | warded by falling down to a deeply [placed green. The wind at this hole Is across, and the slightest slice car- ries away to sand pits and terrible difficulties . The third and fourth holes pro- ceed onwards over the undulating close cropped turf with many sand e main e sand with hollows the turf is firm, springy and Except in the very hottest urf is long : carry to a large Washington made the fourth triple play of the season lately, It Works Wonders, On Colds, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Weak Throat | When your throat rattles, ' your lungs and chest are sore, your throat is stuffed with cold--don't fear con- | sumption---use Catarrhozone and Sot well. It clears the throat, stops | bunkers and traps. hacking, relieves tight chest and| The fifth hole is a perfect dog leg soreness in the bronchial tubes. To | for the pull into the wind. A very clear away Catarrh of the nose noth-4fong carry takes the ball over a wild- ing could he better. Catarrhozone IS (orness of sand with Irregular hills Nature's own remedy--it heals and [1,40 a wide plateau. As played or- soothes--removes every form 'o dinarily, the second shot is almost throat, lung and bronchial trouble. at right angles to the drive away to Presc {ali ued by Jhuny dps lists ay a deep green near the sea protected the dollar outfit; it lasts two months. |bY & very large gulf across the front. Small size, 50c.; trial size 25c.; at|If & good pull Is placed on the drive all dealers or the Catarrhozone Co, [the green can be reached in two Montreal. ishots, but it js a very dangerous "After a day or two at Weston- down Bridgewater to in my ceives the h side {of the Bristol channel, and more in- jteresting than its more famous riv- It has, however, never been used for the champion- ships but! is the favorite location for Chamionship Competi- I have heard it said that it is | {not quite long enough for the more den tra important events, but every effort is These | the hazards sea (den. the | | village of Berrow with its old square towered church actually among the the | careful golf rushes, and some w teeding of the fairway. 8 amic- e inhab- This has resulted in the best of good- where the sand rid -blowing hard off | tough bents upon them, but in the dire COUNTRY GOLF COURSES! Written for the British Whig by Dr. L. J. Austin; Professor, iversity, City. line, as the ground is rough and pit- ted on the left side. The sixth is a short hole placed bigh among the sand hills and re- benefit of all the 'wind, to | (and is consequently, very hard Stay upon. The seventh runs nearer the sea into the flat land ,across the main ridge of sand hills The drive is threatened by a huge sand pit on the right and the second shot' fs very difficult to place, owing to Many hid- Ps. This hole is hardly fair, as it is very dificult to guard against which are mainly hid- { The eighth and ninth are long | holes played on the flats and fully | exposed to the sea wind, and require Playing as there are many ater et the edges | The tenth is a short hole across {the sand ridge, and is an easy shot | with the wind, but must be placed | with accuracy between two high soft |sand hills whence it runs down to | the green. ol | The eleventh is played back {home along the inner side ge, parallel to a road and a 'hedge out of bounds. The twelfth is a short hole back ain into the sand hills, and is, I| |ag { believe, going to be abandoned. The thirteenth carries the general ction of the eleventh to & green | just beside the little church' in the sand hills. | The fourteenth is a short hole, but so small is | that a very accurate ed. - | The fifteenth is played across an {undulating plain to a large green | placed behind a rough hill, and is] |difficilt to reach in two shots. | The sixteenth presents a long car- |T¥, and then a very awkward ap- {proach to an undulating green cut into the side of a grass hill. The seventeenth is a short hole; ~ played directly over the largest sand {mountain on the links. If aceurate- {ly hit, all'is well, but a sloppy shot | will cost many strokes, The eighteenth is a long hole with a difficult drive as it is very narrow, and then a sloping shot across an oblique ridge to the distant green. 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