"The reason why many players "slice" is because they either do not have strong hands or they fail to use their hand strength at the critical moment when the power of the stroke is to be transmitted to the ball." Original Golf Fundamentals, Dunns of Musselburgh Scotland

"Too often playing a fade encourages a golfer to become a slicer, and I need not add that the majority of golfers spend a lot of their time trying to eliminate slices. In a correct fade, the ball is completely under control; in a slice it is out of control and loses considerable distance." Bobby Locke

Download : "The reason why many players "slice" is because they either do not have strong hands or they fail to use their hand strength at the critical moment when the power of the stroke is to be transmitted to the ball. When the hands work as they should, the player can actually feel that he is bending the club shaft on the ball. If you cannot feel this you will not get the distance of which you are capable. The majority of players who fail in transmission of power do so because their left hand fails to act as a fulcrum for the right hand to strike against. The left hand must bear back against the right." DUNNS' Original Golf Fundamentals, Musselburgh, Scotland.

"The hands and the head of the club should arrive at the ball at the same moment, that is what is known as the art of timing." Joshua Taylor

"It is all very well to say 'sweep the ball away'. But no golf ball was ever sent a long way without some sort of resistance creeping into the swing. The left hand does less guiding in most swings than it should. It is the first link between the shaft and the body, and its main function is to form the swing, and yet at the right moment it resists the hit of the powerful right hand." Henry Cotton

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Download : THE DUNNS 5 OPEN CHAMPIONS AND THE MUSSELBURGH GOLF STORY Chapter XVI Some Well-Known Professionals "He was a fine teacher" By George M. Colville Published By Colville Books 11 Park View Musselburgh East Lothian 1980. MUSSELBURGH OLD GOLF COURSE GOLF CLUB Willie Park Senior, Mungo Park, Bob Ferguson, David Brown ('In 1903 in the U.S. Open after 72 holes lost the playoff'), Willie Park Junior. The Five Open Championships www.mocgc.co.uk/history.html

"The actual zone of the approach shot begins, let us say, at a hundred and twenty-five yards from the green. The heavily lofted clubs - the mashie and niblick - put on under spin, which stops the ball comparatively dead; the other iron clubs put on over spin, which causes the ball to run. These then are the essential principles of approach play - the right thumb down the shaft, the stiff or flexible wrists, and the hands, either kept behind the club or pushed through in advance of it." Alex Smith, Carnoustie, Scotland

Download : "We are already familiar with the spin to the right which produces slice" in 'The Short Game' Lesson IV, The essential principles of approach play, Lessons in Golf By Alex Smith, Open Champion, United States and Western Open Champion, and "but the left one is held back a trifle, just as in the driving stroke," New York, Arthur Pottow, 48 West 27th Street 1907, Copyright 1907 by Arthur Pottow Grannis Press New York, Page 72, 81.

"If the shot is to be pushed the hands remain ahead of the ball at impact. If an ordinary shot is required, then the wrist can be allowed to 'throw' or 'flick' the club. Poor golfers often slice because of an untrained right hand." Henry Cotton

DOWNSWING TO IMPACT

Download : "starting the downswing with the drag page 88" and "beating Sam Snead, Ben Hogan By Bobby Locke Open Champion 1949 1950 1952 1957.

Absorption of The Shoulder Turn

Download : 'DOWNSWING' "The first movement in the down swing is the shifting of the body weight by a sidewise action of the hips." and "This absorption of the shoulder turn by the forearms is the most complicated movement in the entire swing" DUNNS' Original Golf Fundamentals, Musselburgh, Scotland.

Download : "It is here that the right hand takes possession" By Bobby Locke Open Champion 1949 1950 1952 1957.

Download : "The hips initiate the downswing" in Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf By Ben Hogan 1957 Copyright © 1957 By Ben Hogan includes "The left wrist begins to supinate at impact..."

'DO THE SAME. BOTH PUSH OR BOTH THROW'

Download : THE DRIVER BOOK "Let hip turns to begin the downswing" "Impact is against firm left side" "Note how head has been kept down." By Sam Snead Masters and PGA Champion.

Download : 'Standardized Golf Instruction' "In the down swing the lateral hip action" By The Dunns of Musselburgh, Scotland, 1934

Download : 'THE TWO-HANDED SWING WITH THE DRIVER' "the wrists flung down to start the downward swing" ; and "begin the downward swing with the down fling of the wrists" page 57, 62, Lesson II Stance, Grip, and Swing. Alex Smith, Open Champion, Carnoustie, Scotland.

Awaken The Hands

"Golf is said to be 90% mental game. A banker who subscribed to that theory appeared for his regular Sunday morning round with one of those chaise-longues-on-wheels so popular for lawns and terraces. "What's your caddy dragging that thing along for?" "Caddy, hell," said the banker. "He's my psychiatrist." 'The Complete Joke Book' By Seymour Dunn, Illustrated by Al Ross, Stravon Publishers, New York, 1953, $2.00