THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
Hew Year's match of the Tin
Whittle Club
The Tin Whistle Club started the year
by a four ball match against bogey
best combined net scores against double
bogey. The score follows:
Eobert Hunter (4), Wee Burn, and H.
W. Ormsbee (20), South Shore, 1 up;
C. S. McDonald (12), Lamberton, and
R. S. Hawthorne (16), Wyantenuck, evenj
the Kev. T. A. Cheatham (9), Pittsburgh,
and T. B. Boyd (11), St. Louis, 1 down;
C. B. Hudson (10), North Fork, and W.
E. Truesdell (8), Fox Hills, 1 down; J.
D. C. Rumsey (20), Brooklyn, and R. C.
Shannon, 2d (9), Brockport, 3 down; C.
W. Harmon (15), Wykagyl, and H. F.
Lesh (16), Brae Burn, 4 down; C. L.
Becker (9), Woodland, and J. M. Thomp
son (8), Sprmghaven, 4 down; T. A.
Kelley (9), Southern Pines, and J. R.
Bowker (20), Woodland, 4 down; R. A.
Swigert (23), Palmetto, and J. L. Weller
(14), St. Catherine's, 6 down; J. M.
Robinson (26), Harbor Beasch, and F.
C. Abbe (22), Bethlehem, 7 down; J. H.
Clapp (10), Chevy Chase, and W. S. Van
Clef (15), Richmond County, 8 down;
H. A. Waldron (9), Agawam, and Dr.
Mr. W. Marr, Woodland, 8 down; H. S.
Houston (38), Mount Tom, and J. T.
Newton (28), Tuxedo, 9 down; A. B.
Alley (22), Apawamis, and W. T. Barr
(11), Shelter Island, 9 down.
The Cure for Slicing-
A large percentage of golf gloom arises
from slicing. A golfer's idea of helJ is
to stand on a hot tee for a million years
and slice balls out of bounds. The chronic
slicer is a wrenched figure, and he falls as
low as he can when, giving up hope of
ever hitting a straight ball, he aims a
quarter of a mile to the left of the flag.
There are at least seven causes of slic
ing. The commonest is the vicious prac
tice of bringing the clubhead down out
side the line of the ball's flight. This
imparts a rotary motion to the ball, and
the flight of it describes a crescent. You
do this nine times ou of ten. But do not
despair; we can help you. We can teach
you to hit inside the line.
But from a commission merchant a bas
ket of very, very bad eggs, and give these
to the caddy to carry. When you tee
your ball, or come up to it on the fair
green, place an egg about three inches
away from the ball and an inch or so
back of it. Now swing, being careful to
keep the clubhead from straying beyond
the line, otherwise you will smash the egg
and scatter the malodorous contents. Be
fore a dozen eggs are broken you will
quit slicing or be asked to resign from
the club.
If the egg remedy fails, procure a piece
of dynamite and use that instead. This
will effect a permanent cure. Canadian
Golfer.
Mental Uazards
On your own home course there is always
some particular hole that "gets your
goat," in the parlance of the street,
writes W. H. Evans in the Philadelphia
Public Leger. No matter how well you
nay perform on the other eight or seven
teen, this one hole is your bete noir, your
hoodoo. There may not be any particular
trouble on it, yet you have set up a men- J
tal hazard, and after you have holed out
you find you have badly botched it. It
has become nothing more or less than a
mental -Hazard. In -tune you get-it out
of your system and it is no longer
troublesome.
Most of the poor shots on these mental-hazard
holes are due to the fact that
the player carries the trouble in his mind,
and when he addresses the ball for the
drive he has in his mind all the trouble
there is there and much more. He
doubly anxious to make a good shot, to
overcome the trouble, and in his anxiety
to make the proper sort of stroke he looks
up just a second and the shot is spoiled.
The old trouble we have always had of
wanting to see where the ball is going is
there and the bhot is topped or heeled or
toed or smothered.
In reality it is not a hard shot. It is
not any harder to drive a ball over
water hazard 100 yards wide than it is to
drive a ball over a stretch of fairway of
the same length, at least it should not be.
We create the trouble largely in our own
mind and the damage is done. It is
purely psychological and not really actual.
There is nothing simpler in the world
than keeping the eye on the ball, but how
easy it is not to? You settle yourself for
your shot and you make up your mind
that you are going to dismiss from your
mind the pond, stream, hill, quarry or
whatever is just between you and the fair
way beyond. You make up your mind
that you are going to treat it just as if
it were not there and that it never did
exist. You have had trouble there before,
time and. time again, and you have let
the trouble get the better of you. But
this time you are going to be master.
Your stance is correct, you go back
properly and the stroke will apparently
be well timed. Your club head hits the
ball and you say to yourself that this
time you are not going to spoil the shot,
but you lift jour head and the shot is
like others you have spoiled at that par
ticular spot. It seems to me on these
particular shots the test way to over
come this trouble is not to think about
the shot at all, but to make the stroke as
mechanically as possible. The more you
think about it the more likely you are
to make a misplayed stroke.
You have to have the mind on the shot,
but if you are thinking of a dozen things
at the time you are making the stroke the
chances are you will not get good results.
If you are too confident of your lack of
confidence, the shot may be spoiled. But
if you can rid your mind of the idea that
the shot is harder that it is, that you are
superior to it, if you can keep your eyes
and head down for a second or two after
you have made the stroke, the mental
hazard will disappear and with it your
trouble. . The next time you are con
fronted with one of these mental hazards
and have botched the shot whenever you
have attempted it previously remember,
if you can just, just what was passing
through your mind at the time.
But without any direct information on
the subject, I should say that a free mind
and keeping the head down will cure the
trouble. The man who says to himself
that he is going into a bunker will proba
bly do so and the man who approaches
any shot timidly and with fear will gen
erally make a poor shot.
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