Let Bobby Jones give you pointers to better putting and lower scores. you need a short game to play better golf.
[Music] 44 years ago there was not a single golf course in the United States and Robert Lockhart was arrested for hitting a golf ball in Central Park New York the first golf club was organized in 1887 with seven members since then the game has gained a new player every 13 minutes today there
Are 4 million golfers in this country playing at 6,000 private subs and 2,000 public courses and the national golf championships are rated the most important of individual sports it affords Warner Brothers sincere pleasure to present Bobby Jones in a series of pictures entitled
How I play golf after devoting half his life of 29 years to National and international competition Bobby Jones retired the first and thus far the only recognized golfing champion of the world wearing the four crowns representing the open and amateur championships of Great Britain and
The United States gained in the season of 1930 in what has been called the Grand slam of golf an achievement never approached before and in all human probability never to be accomplished again Bobby has been playing golf since he was 6 years old competing in major championships since he was
14 and studying the game all his life naturally he has learned something about it and in making this series of pictures Bobby’s ambition is not only to bestow useful hints on the expert and explain the fundamentals of good golf to the average player and the The Duffer but also and most
Particularly to arouse interest in this greatest of all individual sports among those who never have played golf and are unaware of its charms and benefits here he is swinging away on the practice tea warming up by hitting a few shots with every Club just as he does before the start of a
Championship well I guess that’s enough for today have a strength put on that shaft please oh Bobby hello dick how are you good to see you you want a good laugh yeah what’s up well Frank Craven and Joe Brown are just coming up in the
18th Green Oh I know that pair they play their own private Championship every day that’s right well let’s see that that ought to be good please don’t tell me how to hold my clubs I’m not trying
To tell you how to hold your clubs Joe I’m simply saying go through them that’s not telling you how to hold them listen to find you any lessons we’ve got a pro here at the club and I’m just a about
As good as you are oh will you please keep quiet Joe I make this shot please don’t tell me when I’m shooting it’s your shot now look at them Bob they’re like a couple of bandam roosters they said they take it seriously all right do they
Do that every day every day and far into the night will you please keep quiet that’s quite a shot which one was that that’s Craven it looks like he’ll win this hole he’s stoned dead well if he thinks that you listen to Joe cry get
Inside that one my boy yeah if you fell in a cricket come out covered with goldfish give me a club boy it’s the first time you have laughed today yeah you know the old guy you last last last last yes I’ve heard it watch this one get that right hand over
A little more Joe I would please Frank let’s not talk while we’re shooting no please too bad Joe you’re in the Trap I saw where it went you could watch that right hand oh Fu
Look at Joe now he didn’t care for that shot at all anybody can half pop a ball and roll X this pin is pretty lucky oh listen to the birdies you never hear me do any squawking no I know I’m deing
This here remember this is for a box of B kid all right give me the nibbly and get out of the way boy what a shot yes and that makes the situation entirely different too oh boy Thum shot you
Boy nice day don’t forget to box the balls wait a minute going to give me this give it to you sure this little one you mean conceited yeah I made mine didn’t I shoot all right all right that’s the way you feel about
It nice p Frank don’t forget the ball well Frank yeah come here a minute Frank I want you to know Bobby Jones oh how do you do Mr Jones to you I’m glad to know you sir did you see what happened over there been it Dead with hard luck just that long the
Big Buzzard wouldn’t give it to me well you know the object of the game is to get the ball into the hole those little short putts kind just as much as a longer one you uh Miss money like that well
I miss a good many but I practice hard on them you do eh the little ones do certainly want to do me a favor I’d like to come on over here show me how you do those things will you all right I’ll
Be glad to don’t you say anything to Joe how to work you come with day no thanks I’ll see you at the clubhouse all right now let’s start with a short put like the one you missed a moment ago all
Right wait a minute how do you hold your putter the same as all the other clubs of the overlapping grip I used to do that myself but several years ago I made a change in my putting grip which has helped me a great deal if you’d like to try it I’d be very
Happy to show it to you I’ll try anything if it’s going to help me well here this is my normal grip with every Club except this one overlapping in this way in putting I turn my hands until both
Thumbs are straight down the top of the shed and then I change the overlap like this in this position the hands are free to work back and forth with no tendency to turn in either direction I always like to feel the club very lightly in my fingers so that there’s not the
Least bit of tension in either hand or wrist it is then an easy matter to swing the club straight back and straight through the ball that feels great I think you’d feel more comfortable with
Your feet the closer together when you’re spread out that way you you set your body like a rock I always like to stand naturally and just bend over enough to reach the ball I like to feel
A little looseness in my knees I don’t try to putt with my body but I never try to keep my body still I like it to be free so it can move if the stroke demand it you see something right
There the whole idea it seems to me is to do the thing in the simplest and most natural way now now after you got a nice light grip on the club and an easy comfortable position at
Address the next thing is a back swing and in this connection it is important that the club be swung back and not lifted the best way to accomplish this is by using mainly these fingers of the left hand that
Keeps a club moving low and inside the line if the right hand is used too emphatically at this point it results in lifting the club like this so that a smooth stroke is impossible what I like to see is a long smooth unhurried stroke which literally sweeps the ball along the
Green one of the main things to remember is to be sure that the back swing is long enough for the length of the putt that looks easy enough to be able to do say is that Calamity Jane well this is not the
Original the old girl herself been shine so much her face became untrue I had to have this copy made with a straight face otherwise it’s the same Club well let’s have ball
Suppose you step over here and hit a few I’d like to see you do it all right it’s a nice long swing now that’s right stroke it straight through toward the hole that’s fine h bring me a victim hey Frank come on pay me that box of
Balls I’ll put you once double or nothing your what okay I’ll be right there don’t go away here’s where I got even and I think you better leave me out I’ll watch him over here come on this a you certainly are a glutton for punishment
Don’t want to make it free do you sure go ahead p no no no it’s your honor as usual listen for the clink very good very good for you Joe not good not bad you’ll be about there in three I’ll give you your next one
Joe how was that oh that was great oh boy now see that you don’t forget it oh I won’t and I bet he never does well just remember that long long back swing M and you’ll find that your putts
Always go up to the hole never never feel like you’re hitting the ball just a nice long sweeping stroke watch for the next episode the short approach shot to the Green in the Bobby Jones series how I play golf coming to your theater soon help
