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Old 02-25-2006, 01:58 PM
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Byron In Wonderland -- Where Down Is Up
As I scan through Byron Nelson's 1946 classic, Winning Golf, I see that Plate 55 also has been mislabeled "Backswing." This time, the error is even more egregious: The Stroke is through Start Down and well into the Downstroke. Even whoever wrote the accompanying text seemed to realize that something different was going on:

"The wrists have cocked considerably more than they do in playing a longer iron. The reason -- for short shots you hit the ball more with the hands and arms."

No, the reason the "wrists have cocked considerably more" is because it is a Downstroke photo, not a Backstroke photo! It is stuff like this that caused Homer Kelley to ignore the text of the golf books of his day and focus on the photos themselves.

Still not a bad idea!
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