Foreword

By Charles Lawrie

Captain of the British Walker Cup Team, 1961, 1963

Captain of the British Team for the Eisenhower Trophy, i960, 1962

Member of the British Amateur Selection Committee since 19 59

Almost every golfer in the world intensely wants to play the game better. This must be largely due to the fact that the better one plays, the more enjoyment there is to be had from it.

Players can only achieve their end if they find a method of play built on sound principles and logic which will not let them down in a crisis.

In this excellent book Leslie King has taken us carefully through the whole mechanics of golf from the initial stance and grip to the completion of the downswing and follow-through.

HIS BOOK IS BUILT ON SOUND TEACHING AND LOGIC, the result of many years of experience and close involvement in the game.

To follow clearly the pattern of the complete golf swing as analysed and described here, one MUST have a golf club to hand. The drawn illustrations positively help to unfold the whole picture and should enable the correct positions to be formed throughout the golf swing. These illustrations have been well drawn and will be ideal for checking positions and faults.

There is perhaps one aspect which Leslie King has not had time to dwell on to a great extent, but which is of vital importance physical fitness. This could be the subject for another book: it is essential to all games, including golf, and at the moment we have no finer example than our present Open Champion, Arnold Palmer.

Over the years the Americans have certainly been superior. They play the game better and perhaps they base their golf on sounder lines. Their swings seem more able to repeat themselves even under severe pressure and for the most part they hit the ball hard.
The teachings of Leslie King in this book enable the golfer to get him or herself into a good position from which the swing can be repeated and from which a solid blow to the back of the ball can be delivered. This is all-important.

Perhaps Britain lacks a host of first-class teachers. However, here is a man who can put his methods, principles and teachings on to paper in a form which can be easily understood and which can be of great benefit to all golfers who are prepared to work at the game.

Success in life very seldom comes to anyone without an effort.

Why should golf be any exception?

August 1962.

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