This section is from the book "How To Play Golf", by Harry Vardon. Also available from Amazon: How To Play Golf.
Harry Vardon .... Frontispiece
A Good Test for the Tee Shot in Modern
Golf . . . . . .29
Grips Right and Wrong . . . .82
The ordinary grip - A frequently seen but unquestionably wrong grip.
The Overlapping Grip . . . .84
The beginning of the swing - The top of the swing.
The Drive or Brassie Shot . . .104
Stance - Top of the swing - Finish.
Coming Down . . . . . .106
The wrong downward swing - As the club should come down.
Faulty Movements . . . . .108
A wrong back swing and perhaps the most common of faults - A wrong position at the top of the swing - A wrong finish.
The Cleek Shot . . . . .120
Stance - Top of the swing - Finish.
The Iron Shot . . . . .122
Stance - Top of the swing - Finish.
The Ordinary Mashie Shot . . .136
Stance - Top of the swing.
Finish of the Ordinary Mashie Shot . . 138
For a stroke of, say, 80 yards - For a shot of less distance.
The Mashie Shot with Cut . . 144
Stance - Beginning of the upward swing - Top of the swing.
The Mashie Shot with Cut . . .146
Finish for a stroke of medium length - Finish for a longer shot.
The Running-up Shot . . . .149
Stance - Top of the swing.
The Running-up Shot . . . .150
Putting ..... 160
Bunkered . . . . . .174
Stance for the niblick shot - Top of the swing for the niblick.
Bunkered . . . . . .176
Finish of the niblick shot - A frequently seen but incorrect method of playing a niblick shot.
The "Push" Cleek Shot .... 200
Stance - Top of the swing.
The "Push" Cleek Shot .... 202
Finish - Finish for a long shot.
A Distinction with a Difference . . 204
The ordinary cleek shot - The push shot with the cleek.
Intentional Slicing and Pulling . . 222
Stance for the slice - Stance for the pull. In the Wind .... . 226
A drive against the wind - A drive down wind.
In the Beginning . . . between 244-245
The wrong back swing.
In the Beginning . . . 244-245
The correct back swing.
The illustrations are from action photographs specially taken by Arthur Ullyett.
 
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