There he is with three balls lined up to be struck from the same spot with, say, his seven iron to the green.  With his inconsistent delivery the landing area for these three balls is liable to be extensive.  He is likely to pitch one on the back of the green, one on the front, and the third probably short.  This takes no account of any deviation from the line which may occur.

  Work and train yourself to give the hands time and room to bring the club into the eight o'clock position from which you will be poised to make that carpet-beater action at and through the ball.

  Now do you see why the shaped golf swing must be harnessed to a shaped delivery?  Let me repeat that the way to train your hands to give you this eight o'clock position is to give them time.  Wait for it before you let the power pour into the back of the ball.

  This takes us to the next stage, into the "apex" of the swing as I like to call it.

  The apex of the golf swing is that vital section from impact into the follow-through during which the club head stays on the line of flight, anything from ten inches to a foot past the point of impact, the longer the better.  When the club head leaves the line of flight as it must in due course, it comes out of the apex of the swing.  Maintaining the apex without any temptation to make a bodily lurch forward is yet one more sign of the top-class player.

  Stand behind four-times' Open Champion Peter Thomson and watch his club head in the hitting area.  Note how squarely it is applied to the ball, giving an impression of a "lot of club-face" making solid and prolonged contact with a "lot of ball".  Thomson's club-line is prolonged along the line after impact thus sustaining the forward drive of the ball imparted by the club head.

  I was by no means surprised when a few years ago the Americans came out with five agreed basic principles of the golf technique.  The most significant of the five was the one which laid down that the club head is driven "INTO AND ALONG A LINE".  I had been teaching on this principle for years and still do.  It is certainly not the same as "in to out".

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