Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 29, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 February 1933 — Graphic Golf [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Graphic Golf

AVOID OVERSWINGING WITH IRONS OVERSWINGING with iron clubs is a fault hard to get rid of. Many golfers employ the same swing for a short iron shot as they do for wooden club play. In his early years Francis Ouimet had difficulty curtailing his swing for the irons to somewhere between the half and the full swing and still strike the ball a crisp blow at the same time. Then while in England in 1914, preparing for the British Amateur tournament, he stumbled upon the secret. Anxiously watching Hilton’s brisk strokes in the hope of discovering how the latter played these shots, the present amateur champion observed that the Englishman gripped the club with his right thumb on top of the shaft. Ouimet tried it, and lo! the overswing was stopped. It was impossible for him to oyerswing with the right thumb in this position. If you have the same fault with your irons, try out this particular panacea. ©, 1933, Bell Syndicate.--WNU Service.