"To be able to correct our faults through knowledge and not through the good fortune of finding a tip to suit the occasion is to provide a cure which is never going to fail in the long run."Joyce Wethered
Download : 'Balfour, Mr. A. J., how he learned golf, 30; THE WAY TO GOLF' Chapter III "I have heard it stated on very good authority that when Mr. Balfour first began to play he submitted himself to very much the same process of tuition as that which I am about to advise, and that under the guidance ofTom Dunn" and "Similarly there is a kind of superstition that the elect among drivers get in some peculiar kind of "snap..." By Harry Vardon THE COMPLETE GOLFER OPEN CHAMPION 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, AMERICAN CHAMPION, 1900 With Sixty-Six Illustrations Sixth Edition Methuen & Co. 36 Essex Street W.C. London First Published June 1905
Download : "Dunn was tutored by Tom Morris""about 1851, appointed custodian of Prestwick Links, just then newly established as a golf course" page 349 ; and "the twa Dunns, Willie and Jamie, graund players baith, nane better" old Tom Morris, 1886, page 430. 'THE BADMINTON LIBRARY of SPORTS AND PASTIMES' GOLF BY HORACE H. HUTCHINSON LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1890 CHAPTER XIV. SOME CELEBRATED GOLFERS By H. S. C. Everard
"I always call in, when in New York, to see Ernest. I had only a brief chat with him on a recent occasion. Whilst Ernest laughs at the thought of the lever and buffer action being present in the swing I am satisfied it exists. You can go on swinging a club till you are blue in the face and never gain a yard in length unless you work on the 'heart of the swing' - the just before-and-after-impact section."Henry Cotton
Download : "The snap is scarcely perceptible to the eye, but the swish of it is readily recognized by the ear. The follow-through after the snap is a very swift effortless spring-forward of arms and club, which takes place without conscious control. To the eye the only thing apparent is a rapid twisting of the wrists the right over the left at the impact; let us say during that spread of eighteen or twenty inches that Braid writes about. This turn of the wrists occurs, of course, even in a second-class swing, but there it seems spread over a much longer arc. In the swing with snap it is confined to a very small arc too rapid, so far, for photography to seize. The feeling of the snap is, perhaps, the best guide to it."'BRAID OR VARDON, WHICH? By R. STANLEY WEIR 'Golf Illustrated & Outdoor America 1915 August Vol. 3, Issue 5, pgs. 33-34
