When you realize fully that the swing is so much faster with the cleek than with the wooden shots, it should bring home the fact that you are very likely to get the club to the ball with the arms alone, ahead of the heavy muscles of the back and shoulders. There is no earthly use, as I explained in discussing the wooden shots, in trying to have the arms do the work. There is not enough power in them. Unless the heavy and slower-moving muscles get into the stroke you will get no distance.

I give here my scheme of addressing the ball, which is the simplest I can devise for my own use. I stand with my right foot advanced a little more than in the address with the driver because I wish to shorten my swing a little.

The hands are to the left of the center line, or line between
the eyes and the ball, and I assume that stance because it brings the pivotal center between the shoulders and the hands exactly opposite the lowest point in the sweep, which is about four to five inches ahead of the ball as it is shown.

In making the stroke the tape shown was cut in two about four inches ahead of the center line, after connecting with the ball. In other words, I get my distance entirely on the first bounce and not on the carry. As the ball is driven downward against the turf the carry is about two inches and the bulk of the distance is obtained on the first rebound.

When the ball is picked off the turf the carry is greatest.
The difference is that the club head stays against the ball at right angles to the direction the power is being applied during the carry and part of the rebound, making a longer period of con-tact which gives an additional quantity of energy. Remember that this extra energy is not applied by an extra effort but purely from the way you play it. You are merely applying the energy to better advantage.

One mistake that a great many golfers make is in taking their gage from the top of the club instead of the bottom. All iron clubs I have seen are wider at the toe than at the heel, and this makes it look as though the club was facing much farther to the right than it really does.

It should be remembered also that the bottom of the swing is ahead of the ball and that the hands are to turn the face of the club in as the ball is in con-tact with it, until the club face is at exact right angles to the line of flight at the point where the ball leaves the club head. If the ball is addressed with the club face at exact right angles to the line of flight, it will hook the ball to the left if the hands are turned properly, and if they are not turned the ball is bound to be sliced.

In observing a good professional player you can always get the angles he uses if you will get in a position in direct line with a line drawn between his eyes and the ball. You will note that he has his hands to the left of such a line if you are behind him and to the right of that line if viewed from in front of him. The bulk of the weight when on the flat of the feet is directly opposite the point at the lowest part of the sweep and where it will do the most good.