WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT POINTS IN PLAYING FOR A SLICE?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 8

WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT POINTS IN PLAYING FOR A SLICE?

(By LEO DIEGEL, Canadian Open Champion, 1924 and 1925.) A slice can be obtained in any one of a variety of ways, most common of which is to force the hands through m front of the clubhead. Experts obtain a slice by taking the club back outside the proper line and cutting across the ball on the down swing. For the beginner or the average player, the intentional regulated slice is difficult to get under control, but control of the left to right shot is one of the finest advanced shots in the game. The open stance with the right hand well on top of the shaft and the ball played well off the left heel usually results in a slice. An upright backswing and a firm left hand at the moment of impact is another very good method. A WONDERFUL RECORD. J. H. Tayor has a wonderful record in the open championship. His first win was in 1894. when he was 23, and his other four successes were in 1895. 1900. 1909. and 1913, while in 1896 he tied with Vardon, but lost the play-off. He was runner-up in 1904, 1905, 1906, 1914, third in 1901, and fourth in 1898. 1899 and 1911. He was French open champion in 1908 and 1909. won the German open in 1914, and was runner-up in the American open in 1900. In 1922 he was sixth in the British open, and in the following vear, when 52. finished fifth. He seems to have retained his zes t for championship play better than his old rivals, Braid and Vardon. MUSS JOYCE WETHERED SHOOTS BRILLIANT 70. Miss Joyce Wethered accomplished a brilliant round of 70 in a single on the Royal Dornoch links, in which she beat J. A Mackintosh, the Oxford University captain of 1924, by 4 up and 2 to plav. She went out in 34 and came home in 36, her figures consisting of five 3’s, ten 4’s. and three s’s. All the puts were holed except one of less than a yard, on the second green.