I have already made clear my views on patching up.  It will not do.  It is quite inconclusive and merely adds bad to bad.

  When teaching him a delivery I set him to work on the swing-and-stop exercise, at the same time making certain that he first swings into that vital eight o'clock position of the golf club head at the entry to the hitting area.

  The eight o'clock position is the most difficult part of the whole golf swing to teach.  The trouble is that the club cannot be PUT there.  It must be swung with the hands into every phase of the movement.

  I repeat once more, time spent on mastering the eight o'clock position will pay rich and lasting dividends on the course.

  From that stage move into the other vital section of the swing, the apex which you must develop and consolidate.  The whole art of the delivery lies in these two phases of the action.

  I never have to ask a pupil what we did last time he came for his golf lesson.  To do so would be bad teaching psychology.  I can always remember the last golf lesson of any particular pupil and how he has advanced.  Never do I give him more than one thing to concentrate on at any one stage in his development.

  "One thing at a time" is an inviolable rule in golf instruction.

  My pupils vary in age from eleven to seventy-five.  At one end of the scale I have a tiny girl of eleven, the daughter of Harry Bentley, former English Amateur Champion and Walker Cup player.

  This extremely promising child was playing golf shots in my practice net when a good amateur golfer dropped into my school.  After watching her for less than a minute he remarked that he had never seen a child with such a classical golf swing at so tender an age.

  There have been players aged fifty and more come to me with handicaps around 18.  I have succeeded in getting some of them down to £, 4 and even 3.

  This rather gives the lie to the old adage that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks.  Perhaps not, but I know that an elderly golfer can be given an entirely new and much sounder golf game.

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