With An 'Old' Warning And Instruction
"Sixty years ago I remember that outstanding instructor Seymour Dunn proclaiming that golf was 85 per cent hands and only 15 per cent body. Nothing in a lifetime's experience in golf has happened to make me think otherwise. How right he has been! Of course strong legs are essential for control. Accept this as a fact, learn to use the hands properly, and like me you will enjoy a lifetime of pleasure-golf." Sir Henry Cotton
Use The Hands Properly
Download : "NOT CORRECT to sweep the whole lot through." by Henry Cotton and an old warning "Many of to-day's younger players have given themselves serious spinal troubles trying to step up the 15 per cent. proportion...", "Here is the greatest mistake of all in golfing theory...", "left hand resists the hit of the right hand." in 'Facts And Ideas' Sports & Country 24.1.51. The British NEWSPAPER Archive co.uk
Download : BROCA'S AREA Neurosurgical Forum 'Golf a contact sport. Repetitive traumatic discopathy may be the driver of early lumbar degeneration in modern-era golfers By Corey T. Walker, MD, Juan S. Uribe, MD, and Randall W. Porter, MD J Neurosurg Spine February 5, 2019.
Download : '50 Years of Golfing Wisdom' by John Jacobs Golfing Greats (and what you can learn) 167 HENRY COTTON "Henry Cotton, my boyhood hero... "Even though I was only a boy I can remember to this day how impressed I was. There was such wonderful rhythm in his swing and such crispness in the strike. Seeing Henry play was one of the best things that could have happened to me as a young golfer. It inspired me... He always used to talk about the importance of the hands." 185 First published in 2005 by Collins Willow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London.
Reference : Names like Ben Hogan, Joe Kirkwood Sr., Seymour Dunn have left their legacy here in Lake Placid, Adirondacks, New York.
Reference : USGA Golf Museum Ellis Island Willie Dunn Instructor to Marion Hollins Walter Travis 2.15
Download : Musselburgh a historic town in East Lothian known for its golf.
Download : Musselburgh Links : 'The Cradle of Golf' Golf & Glory The Remarkable Story of Golf's True Scottish Home 1821 The Dunn brothers, Jamie and Willie Snr. were born in Musselburgh.
- To improve on direction and to Snap the longest ball FUNDAMENTAL 4, 5, 9 and 12
- To hit the ball properly, strike with square impact FUNDAMENTAL 5
- A golf beginner? Learn FUNDAMENTAL 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Download : 'Some facts about the golf swing' "The hands are the main driving force. The right hand strikes against the left, the left hand acts as a fulcrum for the right hand to strike against." By Seymour Dunn, with Abe Mitchell, George Duncan, 1921, 1922.
Download : 'The Basis of My Game' By Bobby Locke "Where the punch is applied." Irons Short Irons Pitching Wedge British Open Champion 1949.
Download : 'THE DRIVE' By Paul Runyan "For it is all so invisible." Page 113-114, by Paul Runyan, World's Senior Champion, 1962.
The Iron Stroke
Download : 'The Iron Stroke' DUNNS' Original Golf Fundamentals, Musselburgh, Scotland. "In the upswing, unlike wooden clubs, which are started away from the ball, handle foremost by loose wrists, the irons should be started away from the ball, head foremost by firm wrist action."
