Intimate golf talks

Foreword

HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE WRITTEN

When John Duncan Dunn was the head of a large indoor golf school in New York it happened to be my privilege as Associate Editor of Oitting to interview him upon some small matter relating to the game. I learned what I wished to know and left with the usual reportorial haste. It seemed but a passing interview. But fortunately I had remained long enough to watch the way of Mr. Dunn with one of his pupils. It was golf instruction of a distinctly different sort from what I had ever come across before. A few days later upon mulling the matter over I went back to see him again.

Such was the beginning of these golf talks by Mr. Dunn. My interest was twofold: to

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improve my own mediocre game and at the same time see that the instructor's valuable suggestions became printed words. These talks are something more than interviews. They are the direct results of actual situations. I was the average golf duffer burdened with more than an average number of golfing faults of years' standing. The ghost of this same duffer, club in hand, stalks through the following pages. Mr. Dunn's words in great part are inspired by the sight of this actual exhibit out of which he is attempting to make a real golfer.

During the course of my golf lesson interviews with Mr. Dunn, both indoors and out, I often thought of a favourite professor of my college days. We students had thoroughly learned our subject under this professor. We couldn't help ourselves. He showed us that seemingly difficult things are usually amazingly simple; he had the knack of sorting out important and relatively unimportant matters and assigning each to its respective groove.

Very often he would repeat a thing which

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another teacher under Hke conditions would dismiss as an accompHshed fact. He stuck to a subject until we knew it thoroughly.

Philosophy 4 and the game of golf may or may not have much in common, but I have found that in both cases the methods of teaching can be the same. Mr. Dunn's common sense attitude greatly resembles the favourite professor's. He makes golf seem amazingly simple; he clearly shows you the difference between an essential and a non-essential. There may be golfers who can make a better score on the links than John Duncan Dunn, but I am thoroughly convinced there is not a man living who knows more about golf and how to teach it.

Elon Jessuf.

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