A DRIVE By CHARLES EVANS, JR.

MOVING PICTURES OF MR. EVANS TAKEN AT SANDWICH, ENGLAND

Copyright by The Livington Sporting Picture Co.

ACCORDING to the opinion which George Duncan expresses in his article, "Golf Swings Dissected" Mr. Evans' swing should be classified as neither upright nor flat, but medium in the sense which he outlines. That is, the initial movement of Mr. Evans' swing is a turning over of the forearms which instantly changes the angle of the clubface with the line of play and part way back the right forearm is turned inwards causing the clubhead to leave the arc of the flat swing and finally come to rest at the top of the stroke in relatively the same position as that which the club assumes with the typical upright player. It is very difficult in the moving pictures above to discover this action which Duncan describes for unfortunately moving pictures are usually taken at the rate of sixteen pictures to the second which is nowhere near fast enough to stop the action of the hands. Let us assume that to be true which the pictures seem to prove. It is quite evident however, that the track of the clubhead on the down swing is in an upright arc. This change has been determined by an immediate positioning of the hips to that which they occupied at the address. Note particularly the position of the hips in 9 on the back swing and 12 on the down swing. The club is relatively in the same position and yet the hips in 12 are practically in the same position they occupy in 2. The clubhead is therefore compelled to descend an upright arc and if we classify Mr. Evans' swing by the arc of the club head coming down he is essentially an upright player. A remarkable characteristic, an absolutely stiff left arm at the top of the stroke, is shown in 10 and 11. The virtue of this is a maintainence of a never varying length from shoulder to clubhead and an arc of a greater circumference than when the left elbow is allowed to break.