Caldwell, be it noted, was already a good and experienced player with a very fine international record behind him.  Yet, in a sense, he was more humble than the other man, the raw novice.

  He did not expect a golden golfing tip which would solve his prob­lems overnight.  And he was not disconcerted when I warned him that what I proposed to do would take some time but would bring about some marked degree of improvement within a few months.

  So it proved.  Four months later, in the Spring of 1960 he reached the semi-final of the English Amateur Golf Championship,

  We kept at work and the following year he won the English Golf title. Even then I had not completed my task. I was certain that Caldwell could be a still better player.  Yet, for all his golfing gifts, he had his own complex problems of approach to master, and the measure of his ultimate progress must depend on the extent to which he overcomes these problems.

  However, the headway he made under me following a long period of uncertainty was most revealing.  He has put his swing into my hands and shown a readiness to work over a period, while the player at the other end of the scale of golfing class had expected me to produce a gimmick which would turn him into a golfer overnight.  That sort of golfing miracle simply cannot be worked.

  Even a noted professional tournament player like the South African Harold Henning was prepared to accept my blunt assessment of his golf swing.   At the suggestion of a friend he came to my school a few years ago and I told him quite frankly that he had a terrible loop in his backswing which kept his right shoulder riding high as he came into the ball.

  He took my advice and when I went up to Royal Birkdale to observe the practice prior to the 1961 Open Championship I saw at once that Henning had smoothed out his backswing and so given himself a very fine club-line through the ball.  If he has kept his old remarkable putting touch he would have a wonderful run of success.

  Henning at Birkdale remembered how I had advised him and came up and thanked me for what I had told him two or three years earlier when we had last met.

  This website offers no trick transition from rabbit to tiger class.  Its theme will be the gradual shaping of a sound, smooth swing which, once acquired, will stand up under pressure, if given the chance.

  Such is my objective with every pupil who comes to me. I set out to implant in his mind a picture of the shape he needs to acquire, taking him along, stage by stage, until he can sense the shape developing.

  Let it be understood that I teach a definite method based on years of experience and proven principles.  Various people have their own particular problems arising from characteristics of bone-structure and general build.  I note these and prescribe accordingly.  But the golfing fundamentals laid out in this website will apply in the main to anyone capable of swinging a golf club through an arc.

  The shaping of the swing is all-important.  Once you have it keep it.  Don't bend it out of shape by tinkering.  This is where many a better than average performer, in fact many a very good one, leads himself still further off the rails when his game goes temporarily sour.

  What happens? He looks for a remedy all along the route of the movement, everywhere but where he should look.  Soon he is pushing the shape out of the swing.

  Professionals, assistant professionals and leading amateurs, after striving in vain to recapture form in this groping fashion, come to my school for advice.  It is at once clear to me that they have not given themselves a real chance.  They have failed to dwell, as they should have done, on the matter of timing and consolidating the deliver of the club head to the ball.

  Naturals like Dai Rees, Christy O'Connor and Douglas Sewell do not tinker with their movement.  When their game shows signs of sagging they give their attention to the delivery.

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