I have seen more than one struggling player, swing blacked out soon after the start, whose hand-control was so sadly lacking that the club-shaft dropped on to the back of his neck at the top of the backswing.  I well remember someone remarking that So-and-so only needed to insert a razor blade into the club-shaft to decapitate himself!

  It does not require a golf student of any great knowledge or experience to sort out the Sunday morning rabbits from the tigers.  The former far outnumber the latter.

  Too many of these players lack a shaped swing.  They have no mental picture of their intention other than a burning desire to thrash or steer the ball down the first fairway.  They build up tension in mind and muscle even before they launch into the backswing, and endeavor to overcome their fear of what may happen to the shot by applying brute force or manipulation to the club head.

  If you have a clear idea of your intention through a mental picture of the shaped swing you can concentrate on re-etching that picture without being plagued by doubts and fears about what is going to happen when the ball leaves the tee-peg.

  Let us go back to the early pages of this book for a reminder of Archie Compston's mental approach when he walked on to the first tee for an important round in America feeling stale and jaded.  He simply kept faith in his swing, the shape of which had matured with his years of training and experience, and concentrated on the delivery of the club head at and through the ball.

  You can do no more than Archie Compston did that day.  You can only apply your swing and allow it to do all that it can for you.  What it is not capable of doing you cannot make up by other measures.  No golfer is better than his swing plus the delivery.

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