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The swing-shape is the primary consideration. It will take you some way along the road. Then the quality of the delivery defines your limitations.
There are lots of golfers, professionals and assistants, and amateurs in the low handicap bracket, striving to break through in tournaments. Many of them are what I call i£- or 16-hole golfers. This is because they cannot keep their delivery going long enough to take them through a whole round of golf under pressure. It is not quite good enough for the job, and sooner or later it lets them down.
You must put your swing and your delivery to the sustained test of regular competitive golf if real headway is to be made. Only by absorbing the atmosphere and reducing the tension by regular experience of competitive play can you give your swing and delivery a real chance to make the grade.
Take your time moving round the course and settling yourself for the shot you are about to play. This must not be misconstrued as advice to dawdle from one stroke to the next and then to fuss and fiddle before playing the ball. This is liable to do more harm than good. Remember what I have said earlier about working out for yourself a neat, concise, certainly not prolonged, drill in preparation for play.
You must attack and keep on attacking. A cricketer can make 50 runs, and those 50 runs will remain against his name whatever rash act he may commit in the next over.
How different with the golfer. He may be two or three under fours for fifteen holes and wreck his card by blowing up over the next three.
He cannot rest on what he has achieved. He must go on adding good golf to the good golf he has already played. He can best do this by keeping on the attack. Playing safe only leads to tentative golf, and before he knows it he is quitting on the shot and cutting off his swing as it enters the apex.
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