It should be turned that far when the club head is traveling through three or four feet of its arc. The club face is thus away from the ball and it should be parallel with line a, the line you desire to send the ball along when it gets opposite the shoulders. This is done by rolling the wrists slightly.

When you come back to the ball don't attempt to roll your wrists back too soon in your anxiety to get them back in time, because even if you do hit the ground before you strike the ball it will be with the bottom of the club at the back near the lead, and it will straighten in ample time. This motion I have described is what is called the "roll of the wrist" by the professionals.

It is comparatively gradual and the club travels through about four feet while it is being made. The snap of the wrist comes at the end of the turn the instant the club head connects with the ball, and it is done in a flash, while the ball is still in contact with the club, so quickly that the eye cannot see it.

I made the experiment recently and I found that my club head would hit three sand tees each one inch high and six inches between centers or twelve inches between the two ends. I aimed at the center one and just clipped the top off each. This is not a bad experiment to try.

One great difficulty, as it appears to me, is that players are not able to judge as to the direction of their own movements, owing to the constant change in the location of their arms, shoulders, and hands, with reference to the ball. The angles are very difficult to gage, and it is my desire to work out a series of steps for those players who have little time to work them out for themselves, and to give simple methods of obtaining the correct lines of force.

As I have built my game up on the premise that keeping the head still in order to see the ball clearly is the thing which is most important, all the subsequent steps have been constantly modified by that. I do not obtain my power by any heave at any one point in the swing, but am constantly endeavoring to obtain greater smoothness rather than increase my speed. This has actually increased my distance while my direction has improved correspondingly.

I do not hurry my swing in order to get distance, and I do not know of any set of muscles I use more than another. I think that the principal thing that I have in mind when working on my swing is to see how evenly I can swing and how I can avoid introducing the slightest jerk of any sort, rather than to get more power.