John Duncan Dunn

A-B-C of GOLF John Duncan Dunn

"If you have ever had the pleasure to see Harry Vardon play golf, you must have been struck by the total absence of any apparent effort. 'He makes the game seem so easy!' as someone has said. Of course the secret lies in the smoothness and accuracy with which the power is applied. The club goes back and comes down as though it were grooved, as if it were the piston of a steam-engine traveling in its highly polished guides. Many men have played golf well, but Harry Vardon plays it supremely well; his stroke is the quintessence of ease, power, and beauty. Certainly there can be no finer model for any aspiring golfer to copy, and I may condense the sum of all I know about golf, and all I try to impart to my pupils, in the one simple sentence: 'Whatever is Natural and Harry Vardon.'"