Get The Ball Up

Increase The Height When You Strike The Golf Ball

Power or force is always transmitted in a straight line. This is a fundamental law of the universe. It cannot possibly be transmitted in any other way. Is it not reasonable, therefore, that if the club head is traveling in a dead straight line during the time it is in contact with the ball the ball must inevitably be impelled along that same line? It is as sure as that two and two make four.

How, then, can any successful style be developed which does not take this fact into consideration? You can be sure that if your club head is traveling along the imaginary line which runs through the center of your ball, the ball will also go along that line. There is nothing about the club which will make it do otherwise.

It being evident that there is only one, way that the ball can possibly be sent away straight, is not that the paramount issue? That is what you should concentrate your attention on when you have developed a hook or a slice. Don't shift your grip, or change your stance, or have a club built for a hook when you have developed a slice, or vice versa.

The thing is simple enough to understand and within any one's capacity. When you get off your game and develop these faults just go back to first principles, and you can cure them without much trouble. Remember to keep your head in one spot, so that your eyes can see clearly whether your club head is going along that straight line or not.

In golf the ball is on the ground, and we know from experience that it must be driven off the ground and into the air to get the greatest distance.

In the cut the solid line marked x is the line along which we wish to send the ball, because we must get the ball off the ground and into the air to obtain the greatest flight. By reference to the face of the club you will find that the club is "lofted" or inclined, in order to present a surface at right angles to the desired line of flight.

This "lofting," or inclining, of the face of the club then will get the ball off the ground, which should relieve the player from worry on that score. He can concentrate all his attention on propelling the ball forward. Right here is where the vast majority of beginners make a serious mistake.