. Travers' golf book. yards on thestroke at the start and devote their entireattention to an eflfort to get the ball ac-curately off the center of the club head109 GOLF BOOK with a perfectly natural and easy stroke,they would rapidly master the for One of the first things for the novicethe Novice ^^ learn about the brassie is when not touse it. When the lie is bad, or when theball lies in fairly long grass, or when thebunker ahead is so near that the ball maynot rise quickly enough to clear it, thebeginner will be wise if he uses the safermid-iron instead of the brassie. Ano
. Travers' golf book. yards on thestroke at the start and devote their entireattention to an eflfort to get the ball ac-curately off the center of the club head109 GOLF BOOK with a perfectly natural and easy stroke,they would rapidly master the for One of the first things for the novicethe Novice ^^ learn about the brassie is when not touse it. When the lie is bad, or when theball lies in fairly long grass, or when thebunker ahead is so near that the ball maynot rise quickly enough to clear it, thebeginner will be wise if he uses the safermid-iron instead of the brassie. Anotherthing to be avoided by the novice, or aver-age player, is the inclination to press, andthus take the eye off the ball or the spotimmediately back of it. It is far betterto get a straight ball down the center ofthe course than to press and either top,sclaff, slice or pull. By virtue of plentyof practice he should gradually becomecertain of getting reasonable distance with accuracy, and he can then afford to applyno. Photo Copyright by American Press Association PLATE XI—STANCE FOR THE BRASSIE, SIDE VIEWKeep your eye on the back center of the ball and do not press. HOW TO PLAY THE BRASSIE more speed to the stroke, and attemptlonger shots with chances of bringingthem off with consistency sufficient tocompensate for the occasional wild oneout-of-bounds or into trouble. In the hands of an expert the brassie is The Greata remarkably useful club for accomplish- q^^^ing brilliant recoveries in the way of longshots out of fairly high grass, out of shal-low sand traps and for long shots slicedor pulled around clumps of trees. It is aclub upon which the player may almostuniformly depend for getting the ballquickly up from the ground, as easily aswith a mid-iron; but for longer distancesand with less physical exertion. All golf-ers ambitious of improving their gameshould devote hours and days to practicewith the brassie until they get absoluteconfidence in handling it. When the playe
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