The idea so often put forward of letting the club do the work is misconceived and misleading. The club-head will certainly not do the work if the golfer is anything like so passive towards it. The golfer must learn to make the club-head do the work.

The illustration of the beginning of the upswing (Fig. 23) bears directly upon this principle. This is a posed as distinguished from an action photograph, and it undoubtedly differs to some extent from what would be revealed by an action photograph. The latter would show a fuller development of the accessory or accommodating movements. At the same time, if the golfer tried to make his movements correspond with those indicated by an action photograph, he would be tempted to give undue attention to the accommodating movements. The posed photograph emphasizes the importance of hand and finger work at the very outset of the swing, and if this idea is allowed to dominate the mind of the golfer (coupled always with the complementary idea of not interfering with the full and free development of the accessory or accommodating movements of the other members of the body) the golfer will often achieve something closely akin to golf.