Therefore instead of dropping the hands and club head you keep the drive going through the medium of the hands to meet the resistance of ball on turf.  In other respects there is no variation from the bunker stroke.  You still keep it smooth, slow and unrestricted.

  Putting.  Here comes the most critical phase of the game, holing out on the green.  It is often said that a man who can chip and putt is a match for anyone.  This is true only to the extent that a chip and one putt means a stroke saved.

  But the man who is MORE than a match for most is he who can hit consistently accurate second shots to the heart of the green, provided he, too, can putt.  This man is faced with the prospect not of saving a stroke against par but of gaining one by rolling down the putt for a birdie.

  The top player must pick up more strokes than he saves, and to do this he must putt well to take advantage of the opportunities he has set up for himself.

  The finest aid to putting is confidence which is derived in the main from walking up and picking the ball out of the hole!  In putting, as much as anything, nothing succeeds like success.  Confidence is also gained from the feeling that you are going to strike the ball as it should be struck.  Several factors combine to achieve this end.

  First, the putter must be lined up square to the line of putt.  Then it must be taken along that line and kept square to the line.  It must be returned to the ball and into the brief follow-through still on that line and still square.

  The movement of the putter-blade must be economical either side of the ball.  It must be made in the shallowest of arcs.  In fact it should resemble as near as possible a slide rule action.  The many good putters display a variety of methods in bringing about this behavior of the putter blade, for putting is very much an individual science.  And the many more indifferent to bad putters show an equally wide variety of less successful ideas.

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