Thomas Kincaid's diary: extract 8
An extract from the diary of golf enthusiast and Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid.
Transcription
'Jan 25, 26 some particulars of the motion of playing at the glove
- Tuesd[ay] I rose at 5 I wrote the analysis of some psalms till 7 I wrott all the remarks out of Glasar's Compleat Chymist till 11. I glewed the club head and sat with Mr Crawford I boyld the unguentum album with vinagar I read some of Berbett de fractures et luxationibus. After dinner I took out the plains and made a little skelpe to putt on the club. I took of[f] the piece that was joynd to the old shaft . I glewed too that skelpe till 3. I read Berbett de ambustione, and some other places of him till 4. James Duncan came in and sat till 6 ...
- Wed[nesday] I rose at 7 …
I thought on the playing at the Golve.
1. I found that ye most rest most upon the right legg for the most part, but yet not too much as to be exactly perpendicular upon it, which ye will know by the ballanceing of your body.
2. I found that the club most always move in a circle making ane angle of 45 degrees with the horizon.
3. that the whole turning of your body about most be by thrawing the joints of your right legg and then when ... [manuscript torn here] you most throw the ...'
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