Thomas Kincaid's diary: extract 6
An extract from the diary of golf enthusiast and Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid.
Transcription
'that the greatest and strongest motion most begin first.
'for the only reason why men readily miss the ball when they strick with more strenth then ordinare is because their incressing their strenth in the stroak makes them alter their ordinare position of their body and ordinare way of bringing about the club, as also it makes them stand much more unsetledly and waver in bringing about the club, and so they readily miss the ball. I found that I n all motion the greatest and the strongest motion most begin first ...'
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