VARIOUS SHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 10

VARIOUS SHOTS

HOW TO PLAY THEM EXPLOSION AND IRON The follow-through with the iron is of far greater importance than that with any other club. The club-head should be permitted to go through in a straight line after the ball and in the direction of the hole. With a long follow-tlirough an iron shot can hardly go wrong—that is, there will be no danger of topping or skying. Naturally the head is kept down to ensure that the club-head does not come up too quickly. There is a crispness in the iron shot that comes only with perfect timing, and a sure follow through. THE EXPLOSION SHOT The explosion shot is not as difficult as the average player thinks it is. A woman can play it as well as a man, because strength is not essential. One must take a firm grip of the sand with his or her feet, so that there is the smallest chance of slipping. The rules of golf permit one to do this. The club should not be held too tightly. It should come down directly on the ball, and should go well into the sand, coming up abruptly, and bringing up the sand and the ball. Only practice will enable one to learn this shot, and play it well. WRIST SNAP We obtain the so-called snap of the wrists by the action of the hands at the impact. The hands come through ahead of the club-head, but there is always a checking process going on. The left hand appears to stop or go backwards, while the right guides the club through. One need not attempt to put the hands through first—it is easy enough without trying. If we try the hands will go too far out in front, and the result will be a top. or a push, cr a slice. The club head comes through at such a pace that it overtakes tin* hands and is far ahead at the completion of the follow ‘through. J. H. Drake, for years one of Miramar’s leading players, and many times No. 1 in its A team, is seriously indisposed, and it may be months before he can handle a club again. * * * The result of Drake’s illness will probably be that Harold Black, a brother of the better-known J. L. Black, will lead the Miramar van. Black put up a sensational first half at Miramar a week or two ago, with 3 4 4. 3 3 2, 5 3 4, or 31 against a bogey of 39, made up of 5 4 5. 4 4 3. 5 4 5.