tailieunhanh - THE COMPLETE GOLFER

I have been strongly advised to write a book on golf, and now I offer a volume to the great and increasing public who are devoted to the game. So far as the instructional part of the book is concerned, I may say that, while I have had the needs of the novice constantly in mind, and have endeavoured to the best of my ability to put him on the right road to success, I have also presented the full fruits of my experience in regard to the fine points of the game, so that what I have written. | THE COMPLETE GOLFER BY HARRY VARDON OPEN CHAMPION 1896 1898 1899 1903 AMERICAN CHAMPION 1900 WITH SIXTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS SECOND EDITION METHUEN CO. 36 ESSEX STREET . LONDON First Published June 1905 Second Edition June 1905 PREFACE MANY times I have been strongly advised to write a book on golf and now I offer a volume to the great and increasing public who are devoted to the game. So far as the instructional part of the book is concerned I may say that while I have had the needs of the novice constantly in mind and have endeavoured to the best of my ability to put him on the right road to success I have also presented the full fruits of my experience in regard to the fine points of the game so that what I have written may be of advantage to improving golfers of all degrees of skill. There are some things in golf which cannot be explained in writing or for the matter of that even by practical demonstration on the links. They come to the golfer only through instinct and experience. But I am far from believing that as is so often said a player can learn next to nothing from a book. If he goes about his golf in the proper manner he can learn very much indeed. The services of a competent tutor will be as necessary to him as ever and I must not be understood to suggest that this work can to any extent take the place of that compulsory and most invaluable tuition. On the other hand it is next to impossible for a tutor to tell a pupil on the links everything about any particular stroke while he is playing it and if he could it would not be remembered. Therefore I hope and think that in conjunction with careful coaching by those who are qualified for the task and by immediate and constant practice of the methods which I set forth this book may be of service to all who aspire to play a really good game. If any player of the first degree of skill should take exception to any of these methods I have only one answer to make and that is that just as they are explained in .