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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1963)
At last-the secrets of the world's greatest money golfer ML"J TO PLAY TO SAMUX jac.Kson snkad started lolfiiiR in the liills of Virginia with a tilth carved from a swamp maple. He was so poor that "money thought I was dead." lint today, after winning 110 tournaments, he has collected a fortune in prize money. What makes Sammy win? He tells yon in his new hook, TllK F.ni;cATI()N OK A Goi.mt. He tells you, for example What the 1 Golf Disease is and how to cure it Why you should think with your swing and not ahead of it How to overcome the "yips" in putting, and why the prime rule in putting doesn't hold water What to heware of when you gamhle in golf Here, for the. first time, is the colorful story of golf's most successful player. There has never heen a golf hook like it. Only Sam Snead could take you behind the scenes of top tournament play, tell you how he solves golf prohlems, and (at the end of each chapter) show you precisely how his experience can he applied to pare strokes off your score: How he took a tip from Vic Ghezzi and blazed home with a pair of 67's to over come an 8-stroke deficit and win the Masters W The worst experience he's had in 25 golf ing years and how you can benefit from it What he said to President Eisenhower that made the Secret Service man blanch but took five strokes off the presiden tial game Why Sam has never lost to Ben Hogan in a playoff '' How he corrected his early hooking and smothering Golf Course Diplomacy: "The Brazil Story" The putting mistake that lost him a Na tional Open playoff and how even a beginner can avoid it Sam not only gives you priceless "how-to" instruction more important, you get the think- ing behind his game: winner-thinking. And he regales you with pungent inside-golf anecdotes, never before in a book every one of which con tains golf savvy from which you can profit. How to improve your game sitting down.' As you enjoy Sam's unretouched stories of the exciting moments in his career (see the table of contents at right) an extraordinary amount of his hard-won education becomes yours. You learn how to shrug off an opponent's needling and perhaps do some of your own . . . why footwork is so important . . . how to get better distance on woodshots . . . how to correct knee and wrist tension . . . when to undercluh your irons. You'll find out Sam's special technicpies on tricky lies, dog-legs, water holes, rough . . . how to play a sand trap better, and how to avoid an almost universal error in trap strategy ... 4 com mon putting situations and how to play them . . . how to stay "cool-mad when hexed". . . and much, much more. What it adds up to is this: it doesn't matter whether your present handicap is 2 or 22 what Professor Snead knows how to do is improve your game. Send for your GUARANTEED cop today Read Sam's book for thirty days. Try out all the tips he gives you. At the end of that time, if you are not a better player, return the book and pay nothing. Otherwise, we'll bill you for only $J.5() (plus postage). The Eiwcation ok a Golfer is guaranteed to help you or it costs you nothing. So mail the coupon today to: Simon AM) Schuster, Publishers, Dept. 76, 630 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N. Y. E 10 GREAT CHAPTERS I. PECKERWOOD KID: OFF THE TEE. The drive Alva Bradley didn'l believe; backwoods boyhood days; smothered drives. Sam's Lesson: a beginner's approach to playing wood shots. II. FIRST IOOK AT THE BIG BOYS: DON'T OUIT ON THE HOIE. The Hcrthcy (la.) Open ol 19.16; ihe Miami and NaMau Opens of 1937; the Oakland (Cal.l Open of 1937. Sam's Lesson: quilling on the hole. III. MORE TEE AND FAIRWAY TROUBLES. When they told us to eat divots; Pir.ard said: "This club might help you": a barefoot brawl at the Masters. Sam's Les son: adi-anced tee and fairway play. IV. KEEPING THE SHIRT ON: GOLFER, CURE THY SELF. (ow in Hfay cool-mad when heied; building a thick skin in the II.S. Open; spectacles I've made of myself; what a temper can cost you. Sam's Lesson: a few clues to keeping calm. V. OUT OF A PRESSURE COOKER - TWICE: READ ING YOUR OPPONENT.Versus Jim Tumesa - the 1912 P.C.A. championship: versus Hen lloKan-lhe 1954 Masters play-off. Sam's Lesson: reading an opponent. VI. WHEN THE MIND LEAVES THE BODY: PUTTING. Rolling; them in three ways: "yipping" putts in Africa; three years of pulling paralysis; a magic blade and a comeback. Sam's Lesson: the secrets o) success on the greens. VII. FROM BUSH TO TREE TO TRAP: SAND AND HAZARD PLAY. My No. 1 blowup; a Ryder Cup lesson in hazards: sund trials and errors; blowing the Musters from a buried lie; trees, rough, and "unpluyables"; people can be harjirds, too. Sam's Lesson: playing out ol sand and hazards. VIII. HAWKS, VULTURES, AND PIGEONS: GAM BLING GOLF. A slicker from South Carolina; revising the handicap down; plunger's match in Havana; primer for "blind" lienors; the champ Titanic Thompson; giod and bad pigeons. Sum's Lesson: gambling golf. IX. THE ROCKY ROAD TO SHORT PUTTS. You can't shoot 71 in Itrazil; finessed at Shawnee hy a lightweight; riot at Westchester; boomerang balls in Los Angeles; from fringe to cup a 1100,000 shot. Sam's Lesson: the short game. X. "NEEDLES" AND KNOWING YOURSELF. p,y. chology and a revenue agent; a 30-inch putt at Si. l.ouis; countering opposition gimmicks; galleries and officials can needle you; the day I "threw" a match; the biggest thrill of all. To Your Bookseller, or SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Publlihrt, Dpf. 76 630 fifth Avtnui, Naw York 20, Nw York I'm looking forward to Sam's invaluable tip that arc guaranteed to help my game. So ruh mr Sam' n-w lunik, tiik emxatihn or r.ni.pi;n, for 30 day' Iree. examina tion. At thr end of I ha I lime I'll either rriurn it and pay nothing, or keep il and remit only M-50, plus a small postage charge, as payment in full. Name Addict City Zone- Slate SAVE POSTAGE) Cheek here and ttend t 'J) with ihitt coupon. Then we pay i I pmtaice. -Same 30-day return privilege.
