Now you will know why I deplore the cliche "make sure the wrists are fully cocked at the top of the swing" used by people who, almost in the same breath, warn you, very properly, that there should be no conscious effort to cock the wrists.

  How, I ask you, can you, or anybody, "make sure the wrists are fully cocked at the top of the swing" without consciously making an effort to ensure this?  You need not, must not, worry about the function of the wrists.  Get your golf grip right and the wrists, and elbows, properly positioned at address, (we shall come to that when we deal with the stance) and the wrists will look after themselves.

  We have heard and read about "stiff-wristed" methods of American golfers.  Utter rubbish! I declare that no American, from Hogan, Snead and Palmer down, would break 90 playing with stiff wrists.

  I feel that this stiff-wristed illusion arose from the very fact that the Americans make no great play of the wrist action in their game.  They keep their wrists under control.  Jackie Burke, one of their outstanding stylists, declared that the wrists are rarely, if ever, mentioned in American locker rooms or on the practice grounds.

  I repeat, the wrists will play their automatic part IF the arms and hands function correctly.  Yet strength in the wrists is required if they are to take the strain which the swing movement imposes on them.  Floppy wrists make golf a penance.  See that they become strong and supple.

  Now for ways to train and strengthen the hands, fingers and wrists.

  I am not among the advocates of swinging a specially weighted club.  Do all your club swinging with a golf club of the swing weight you will use out on the golf course.  That to me makes common sense.  A practice swinging golf club with ounces of extra lead poured into the head simply provides you with a clumsy, unwieldy implement in sharp contrast to the finely balanced product which the manufacturer has turned out for your use.

  No, I advise a selection of simple exercises such as pressing the spread finger-ends of the two hands against each other and compressing a spring grip, obtainable for a small amount of money and easily carried in the pocket.  This spring grip also builds up the forearm muscles, and when you can fully compress it without strain you will be on the way to your objective.

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