As the center of the face of the club is the point at which it is destined to meet the ball, the club should be placed in such a position that its face meets the ball at this spot. The sole of the club should be fairly on the ground. If the club does not fall into this position easily and naturally, there is something wrong either with the lie of the club or with the way in which the player is standing or holding her hands. The fault should be observed and immediately corrected. It is of great importance that the ball should be addressed truly, as it is hopeless to believe that a fault in the address can consciously be corrected as the club is descending to the ball.

George Duncan, Article II, "Golf Illustrated," says: "The hands must be in a straight line with the ball and the toe of the club immediately behind the center of the ball," and again in the following article he states: "After addressing the ball correctly with the toe of the club behind the center of the ball, and the hands in a line with the ball (as explained in a previous article), the player is ready to make the up-swing." As a matter of fact he did not explain in the previous art-ticle why he advocates addressing the ball with the toe of the club; all he said about it is what I have quoted. His explanation, if he had made one, would have been interesting because we cannot help wondering why he would recommend for general adoption this rather irregular style of address. It is true that a great many players do address the ball with the toe of the club, but to imitate them without reason would be extremely foolish. As a matter of fact, the players who lay the toe of the club back of the ball are using one fault to correct another. They have probably found that, when they address the ball truly, they come back to it with the heel of the club, and to avoid doing this they begin the shot with the club pulled in a little. Hitting with the heel is a common fault and is due to one of two things; either the player lets out a little, and, on the downward swing, allows the club's head to describe a larger arc than it did on the up-swing, or she sways her whole body forward as she brings the club down. Lurching or leaning forward is a bad fault and should be corrected at once. The letting out of the arms on the downward swing is the result of the player's determined . effort to hit the ball. As she carries the club up she is using some caution, as the club comes down the one thought is to hit the ball and hit it hard; it is almost inevitable that the arms should go out a little and that the head of the club should come through a little farther away from the player than it did on its slower upward journey. If the player finds that she is doing this, and that, otherwise, her swing is all that it ought to be, she may permit herself to counteract this defect by addressing the ball with the toe of the club. She should not, however, be too ready to adopt this style of address, and should resort to it only as the last expedient when she feels quite sure that it is the only way by which she can be sure of meeting the ball squarely.

The complete swing of the golf drive is, from the viewpoint of mechanics, one of the most curious feats that a player has been set to accomplish in any game involving a ball and an implement for hitting. Theoretically, we have here the object that is destined to strike the blow describing a full circle, or, more correctly speaking, a circle and a half, and at only one instant is it in the line of the ball's intended flight. It is to this unusual situation that the great difficulty of driving straightly and truly is attributable. In all the club's journey, as it completes one circle and laps half-way over on a second, there is only one point at which it may meet the ball. Surely, the margin for error is very great, so great that the player helps herself a little by starting the club's head back parallel to the ground for a few inches in the hope that it will return in the same way, and, after the ball has been struck, allows the club and the body to follow after the ball. By doing this a little of the curve of the circular swing is removed, but not enough to relieve the player from using the greatest care throughout the whole stroke.