. Travers' golf book. different strokes. It does notmatter so much regarding the length, loftor shape of the club, as that the player byreason of much practice with it acquires GOLF BOOK confidence that he can get just such re-sults with his favorite club nearly everytime he makes a stroke with it. The ma-jority of golfers find that the iron is thaeasiest club in the bag to play with. Theycan almost invariably get the ball upcleanly and away. This simplicity is dueto the fact that a comparatively shortswing is used, and the loft of the clubrepresents the normal, between the cleekand the mashie
. Travers' golf book. different strokes. It does notmatter so much regarding the length, loftor shape of the club, as that the player byreason of much practice with it acquires GOLF BOOK confidence that he can get just such re-sults with his favorite club nearly everytime he makes a stroke with it. The ma-jority of golfers find that the iron is thaeasiest club in the bag to play with. Theycan almost invariably get the ball upcleanly and away. This simplicity is dueto the fact that a comparatively shortswing is used, and the loft of the clubrepresents the normal, between the cleekand the mashie. The face is not asstraight up and down as the cleek, noras much laid back as the mashie. It isperfectly designed to hit the ball by thesimplest sort of a stroke, get it up cleanlyand for fair Stiff In an article elsewhere on the cleek I^^^ have pointed out the desirability of using a stiff shaft. This matter of shafts, to mymind, is of great importance, and too much cannot be written on the Photo Copyright by American Press Association PLATE XIX—TOP OF SWING OF MID-IRON SHOT The left leg remains rigid and the club should not be taken back quite so far as in a. cleek shot. GOLFERS FAVORITE CLUB Whenever I see a man using a club witha whippy shaft, I always feel that he islaboring under a heavy additional handi-cap. If you will stop to consider thataccuracy is more essential to good golf Accuracythan mere distance, particularly when r»-^ ^ ? Distance playing iron shots, you will readily un-derstand that with a shaft which permitsthe club head to whip from side to side,it is a mere matter of luck whether youmeet the ball squarely on its face or iron is 38^ inches long, one inchshorter than my cleek, and I stand a littlenearer the ball when using it. Theweight of my iron is 15 ounces. I playthe ball from about opposite the centerof my body, with the right foot advancedabout three inches farther than the weight of the body is more on th
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