“Slack is the method of better golf,” says Archibald.
In an effort to understand the art and science of Bowlbetterology, it is often helpful that we study alternative methods, no matter how ugly or silly they may appear to be. To quote the Hagakure (again, for samurai hits): “It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all ways and be more and more in accord with his own.”
With this in mind, read on as I continue my exploration of the views of the SGs and their golfing style.
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“SLACK IS GOLF
– or, at least, it is a better golfing technique than the Swedish drill.”
Archibald Mealing,
Some-time golf buddy of a certain Bob
“The ordinary golfer, whose scores per hole seldom exceed those of Colonel Bogey, does not understand the whirl of mixed sensations which the really incompetent performer experiences on the rare occasions when he does strike a winning vein. As stroke follows stroke, and he continues to hold his opponent, a wild exhilaration surges through him, followed by a sort of awe, as if he were doing something wrong, even irreligious. Then all these yeasty emotions subside and are blended into one glorious sensation of grandeur and majesty, as of a giant among pygmies.”
From “The Man Upstairs and Other Stories,”
As written by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse