Even the resolution to glue the eyes to the ball is an irrelevance. If the player has the hitting idea immovably in his mind, he is sure to look at the ball; the player only fails to look at the ball when that one dominating idea is momentarily absent. If the mind for one instant leaves that idea and concerns itself with anything else, as, for example, the result of the shot, the head will, as likely as not, go up. Moreover, if the mind flits for one moment from the one idea of hitting the ball, the rhythm of the movement will be disturbed, the swing will probably go wrong, and the player's head will inevitably go up - it will be jerked up. Every indifferent player is a victim from time to time to fits of head-lifting. All sorts of "tips" have been devised for the treatment of this malady, but it is common experience that no matter what specific is applied the head-lifting continues. It is, indeed, not to be cured by nostrums, not even by a fixed determination to keep the head down. For head-lifting is usually an effect of a bad swing, not a cause of one. The only real cure for head-lifting or any other golfing malady lies in concentrating the mind on forcing the club-head into action by proper hand and finger work.

Fig. 33. - How the blade of the iron should normally come on to the ball.

Fig. 34. - Another view of the type of shot shown in Fig. 32.

Fig. 35 Straight position of wrist.

Fig. 44. Left wrist bending in follow through.