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For when the boy raised his feet with each stride, the man-sized, hob-nailed boots which encased them failed to lift in turn. Indeed, the toes did clear the ground, but the heels, slipping away from the lean ankles, dragged in the follow-through. And the boy's other garments, save for his flannel shirt and flapping felt hat, were of a size in keeping with the boots.
In coming down the cleek should gain its speed gradually, so that at the time of impact it is travelling at its fastest pace, and then, if the toes are right and the shoulders doing their duty, the follow-through will almost certainly be performed properly. The right shoulder must be carefully watched lest it drops too much or too quickly. The club must, as it were, be in front of it all the way.
Suppose the ball is lying fairly low in grass. It is clear to the player that his iron club, as it approaches it, will be called upon to force its way through some of the grass, and that as it comes into contact with the ball many green blades will inevitably be crushed between the face of the club and the ball, with the result, in the case of the plain-faced club, that further progress in the matter of the follow-through will be to some extent impeded.
They represent a pragmatic rededication to social compassion and national excellence, in place of the combination of good intentions and fuzzy follow-through which too often in the past was thought sufficient.
I squeezed it as hard as I could, lit it again, pressed my feet against the table and pulled. "Now it's going," said Charles. "I'm afraid it keeps very reticent at my end. The follow-through is poor. Is your end alight still?" "Burning beautifully." "It's a pity that I should be missing all that. How would it be if we were to make a knitting-needle red-hot, and bore a tunnel from this end?
In the backward swing, the length of which, as in all other strokes in golf, is regulated by the distance it is desired to make the ball travel, the head of the putter should be kept exactly in the line of the putt. Accuracy will be impossible if it is brought round at all. There should be a short follow-through after impact, varying, of course, according to the length of the putt.
"Slow back" The line of the club head in the upward swing The golfer's head must be kept rigid The action of the wrists Position at the top of the swing Movements of the arms Pivoting of the body No swaying Action of the feet and legs Speed of the club during the swing The moment of impact More about the wrists No pure wrist shot in golf The follow-through Timing of the body action Arms and hands high up at the finish How bad drives are made The causes of slicing When the ball is pulled Misapprehensions as to slicing and pulling Dropping of the right shoulder Its evil consequences No trick in long driving Hit properly and hard What is pressing and what is not Summary of the drive.
In other respects, the upward and downward swing, the grip, the follow-through, and everything else are the same. With many players the club is a particular favourite for the tee shot at short holes of, say, 140 to 160 yards length with a tolerably high bunker guarding the green a type of hole very frequently encountered, and which simply calls for steady, sure play to get the bogey 3.
Its position rather affected my follow-through, so that I duffed my stroke and lost the hole. This record if it was a record was also the means of eclipsing what I believe was another record in first-class golf. The first ten holes in this match were halved, and it was the incident of which I have just been speaking and the duffed stroke that followed it that led to the breaking of the sequence.
But if the turf is soft and yielding, the club head will have an inevitable tendency to burrow, with the result that it would be next to impossible to follow-through properly with the stroke, and that the ball would skid off, generally to the right. The shot is therefore played to greatest advantage on a hard and fairly dry course.
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