How to Practice

Make it objective-Errors to avoid-Use of a mirror- The aim of practice-Those tiny putts

  I have taken you through the whole of the mechanics of stroke-play.  By now you should have acquired a clear idea of the advantages to be gained from a shaped swing.  If you have read and studied the preceding chapters thoroughly with a golf club close at hand, you will have already built into your action a sounder shape and at least the semblance of a delivery.

  The beginner will have laid the first foundations of a consistent and respectable game within his own limitations.  The more advanced player, while incorporating some better features into his movement, will have automatically eradicated a good deal of the bad.  The shape is taking effect and a delivery is being built into it.  Maybe in practice and play on the course you have thus early derived some benefit.

  Now, in the concluding stages of this book I want to guide you in applying what you have learned.

  You would be well advised to add a large mirror to your equipment.  Any old Victorian relic, if large enough, will do, and it matters little if it is cracked.  Any second-hand furniture dealer should be able to meet your requirements, and when you have found what you want set it up against the wall of your garage or box-room.

  Swinging in front of this mirror, you can take stock of your position at different stages of the movement and clarify still more the mental picture of the shaped swing you are creating.

  Let me assume you have such a mirror.  Take your five iron and go through the whole operation as I have described it in this book, checking on the points which matter most.

  Bear in mind at all times that you must give your hands time and room in which to swing the club head, and that every movement, every position taken up is directed to generating and retaining power in the hands.

  With the correct grip and the poised stance, you move into the initial stage of the backswing using the hands and arms alone, until the body joins in with the chest turning above the retracted stomach.

  You will keep the left arm passively extended and make no attempt to alter the square set of the club-face by manipulating it opened or closed.  Keep it square.

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