THE GOLF RESEARCH ARCHIVE
2011 - 2023

THE
NO. 2 SECRET
OF GOOD GOLF

Download : "Whilst there is a lot of talk of the "Swing the club-head" theory being all there is to the golf game, unless the wrists are strong you can swing to your heart's content and not get very far. You have to make the club-head do the work. This is my slogan, and this "make" implies effort, will power and resistance, for the golf club is more or less a lever and the left hand resists the hit of the right hand." Henry Cotton Facts and Ideas Sport & Country. 21.1.51. Henry Cotton Emperor of Golf, Open Champion 1934, 1937 and 1948. By Charles Graves, 1948

The left hand resists the hit of the right hand. Henry Cotton Open Champion 1934 1937 and 1948

HOW
TO SQUARE
THE
CLUB FACE

OGF F12
AT IMPACT
LEFT HAND HAS
TO BEAR BACK AGAINST

Download : "The left hand has to bear back against the right." ORIGINAL GOLF FUNDAMENTALS Fundamental 12 Transmission of power By The DUNNS of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, 1897, 1907, 1922, 1930, 1934. Scotland's Golf Coast, Scotland

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Download : "I still have to be convinced that golf, for the world in general, means using more body than I teach, for I give the body only 15% of the effort to get speed, the arms, hands and wrists 85%. (Seymour Dunn, a great teacher and student, gave the same percentages)." HENRY COTTON My Golfing Album THE GOLF SECRET Country Life Limited London Published in 1959 Open Champion (British Open) 1934, 1937 and 1948

Download : "Sixty years ago I remember that outstanding instructor Seymour Dunn proclaiming that golf was 85 per cent hands and only 15 per cent body. Nothing in a lifetime's experience in golf has happened to make me think otherwise. How right he has been!" 'THANKS FOR THE GAME The Best of Golf With Henry Cotton Sidgwick & Jackson London Penina 1980 Open Champion 1934, 1937 and 1948

"Do you remember the much vaunted 'scissor' action - the crossing over of the wrists? The secret of the game, it was said to be. It is forgotten to-day, considered almost as out-of-date as the hickory shaft." Henry Cotton