KINEMA AND THE GOLF DRIVE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17124, 20 April 1921, Page 9

KINEMA AND THE GOLF DRIVE.

The latest •method of improving one's golf is (says our London correspondent on March 3rd) to watch an expert at play by means of tln> retarded cinema. Di. Gustave Monod-Walter lectured upon the method at the Koynl .Society of Medicine last week, and showed kouie very instructive films. The doctor's ''ultra cinema'' takes motion pictures at the rate of 300 a second, but they can be slowed down in reproduction to about 13 1o the second. The stroke of a golf expert .shown on the screen can thus be analysed at leisui'e. It is truly exciting to watch the upward movement of a club, tbe momentary hesitation at tbe top of the stroke, and then the downward swing of the club-he.-ul to Tiicet the ball. The pictures ol a player '"holing out" were also full of interest. The"bull was struck, it moved slowly towards the hole; every moment it seemed that it must stop-, then it toppled over the edge of the turf and out of sight, amid general laughter. The authorities say that the perfection of the "carry through'' and the rigid adherence of the player to the' rule that the head must he' kept down, were revealed in a way that can ,ncvor be-realised by watching a stroke played on tbe links. Incidentally, Dr. Mon.od-Walker made some interesting remarks upon tko psychology of golf. He said that as soon as a man puts bis will into bis strokes be is done for. This is why beginners often play well. When they begin to take an interest in the game they are lost. The best advice Dr. Monod-Walter could give a player who wished to reduce. his golf handicap' was that ho should work through' his imagination. If he imagined the flight of tbe ball hewould probably play tho stroke correctly. If he was determined to make the stroke in a certain, way things would go ■wrong.