Players will go out on the course after reading this and find that they begin to get distance while their minds are on accuracy, and the lesson will be lost. They will immediately try to increase that distance by going back to the cause of a lack of it.

You cannot be accurate if you are unable to see your ball clearly, and you cannot see it clearly if your head sways while you are making your stroke. You cannot make anything approaching a violent effort and keep your head still, and knowing this you have less than a quarter of one per cent of a chance to be master of your stroke if you are swinging so rapidly that you have not perfect control every instant during your swing.

I have called attention to the fact that if the club head is not moving along the line of flight while in contact with the ball, the ball cannot travel along that line, and that only is the thing to look for in your practice. Keep your head still and have your club head going straight when you meet the ball and you have nothing else to consider. The longer you can have your club head going along the line of flight the flatter will be your arc and the less the tendency to sclaff or top.

Very few beginners can associate ease of effort and accuracy with a long ball. They feel that only a most violent effort will produce the long drive. Every time they swing they are making a much greater effort than the longest driver I know of. It is all wasted.

They cannot be brought to see that it is accuracy and "timing" that do the work. If they do see the point they make no attempt to take practical advantage of it. My longest drives come off when I am not trying for anything but to put the ball down the line I am aiming at as true as I can.

They seldom come if I am trying for distance. If you desire to get an unusually long ball your mind must more than ever be directed for accuracy be-cause it will be harder to be accurate with a greater effort than you are accustomed to. It is also harder to keep the head still.

The point where I find the average player falls down in his swing is with the shoulders and body. He invariably starts them too soon and too fast, and there is little chance of the hands being able to straighten the club in time.