Wait until you can feel the drag of the club at the shoulders before you attempt to use them. Your club head must be around in position before you can feel the strain at the shoulders, and then you can move them as fast as you like.

If you will stop and consider that the right arm is bent at the elbow from the top of the swing until just as you get to your ball you will see that any sudden effort of the shoulders until both arms are straight will be wasted.

If the weapon was a heavy hammer it would not take long to get at the points which give the power. If you have ever seen a lumberman swing his axe at the base of a tree you can under-stand about the way he applies his power.

You will grasp the idea of the speed with which I apply the body and shoulders to the stroke, if you can gage about what the woodman's speed would be with his axe. You would never find him looking away from the spot he wished to sink his axe into, and you would find that he would never tire himself out by applying his power before the axe was in a position to take it.

The idea is to get a gradually increasing speed until you connect with the ball, and then press steadily. The only difference between you and the woodman is that you would throw yourself clean off your feet if you were to apply any such amount of power when you connect with the ball, as he uses in swinging an axe.

I have had a great many players ask me how still they should keep their heads, even though I have tried to explain that it should be kept as still as though it were held in the one position with a brace.

An illustration I used which seemed to help one friend of mine was this: imagine that you had a glass of water balanced upon your head and you were trying to swing as hard as you could without spilling any of the water out of the glass, and you have a pretty fair idea of the way you have to swing to avoid moving your head.

You would avoid making any particular effort at any one point in the swing, because it would jar the head. If anything in the nature of a jerk is introduced any-where in the swing it is a sign that you are pulling in the hands somewhere. If the swing is made properly you have a total absence of the feeling of power anywhere in the stroke.

The club head goes through the ball smoothly and you should be on your guard the moment you can feel the power in the stroke.