PLAN OF THE COURSE

This is not a book on the science of golf, but about learning it. Everything on the science of the game has been written, little on how to learn it. So I outline a method of learning and stress certain points about the golf swing. And please remember that long experi­ence has told me what to emphasize when teaching. Some of the points which you will find me making a fuss about are considered minor details in the science of the game, but they are important to me because they relate to feel rather than to mechanics—and it is through feel that I play and teach.

I believe that the mechanical details, like the ball, should become incidental. They are of course of ex* traordinary interest and if this book arouses interest in the fundamental sensations of the golf swing I shall be tempted to write another (and much more exten­sive one) on its detail. But that is another matter.

In brief, the plan of this book is that in the six chap­ters of Part One I outline my theory of golf, and ex­plain how I came by it and why I hold it; while Part Two consists of chapters which elaborate the various technical points, interspersed with Interludes for In­struction and Reminiscence which enable certain very essential points to be emphasized as well as providing a little light relief from the more solid matter.

Finally, this book could not possibly be complete without the magnificent photographs which my friends Val Doone have been at such generous pains to make for me. In the course of my golfing life (a grand one!) I have seen thousands of golfing photo­graphs, and they were mostly all just the usual and rather useless pictures; they did not, as do these, re­produce most faithfully those subtleties of grip and stance, of the play of essential muscles, and of the poise of limb and club in motion—which are, in the end, the grail we seek.

PERCY BOOMER

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