“THE ESSENCE OF THE MATTER.”
Mr. Hammond’s article in the world’s greatest golf magazine for September
was interesting in more ways than two. The photograph of Ernest Jones
shooting a 72 with only one leg to his name, and that a left, was an
arc-light of illumination. One-legged golf is what we have all been
hoping for. It does away with the problem of the shifting of weight from
one pin to another; it eliminates the perplexities of stance; it prevents
heaves and swayback; it precludes pivoting on the left great-toe (unless
the player is a Mordkin); it reduces the game to its simplest terms, and
leaves the pundits not a leg to stand on. Surgeon, get the saw! On to the
operating room!
Mr. Hammond mentions Jones’ conviction that “the fingers are the essence
of the matter.” They must be, since the cracks all have the game at their
fingers’ ends.