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I WAS much interested in the “Unwritten Chapter on Golf” (NATURE, Sept. 22, p. 502), signed with the well-known initials of “P. G. T.” The mechanical explanation of “toeing and heeling,” is however incomplete, as it does not take into account the torsion of the head and shaft caused by the impact of the ball on one side or other of the centre of percussion. If the ball be “heeled” (that is, goes off any point of the club-face nearer to the heel than the centre of percussion), the impact on the club-head causes it and the shaft to twist horizontally from right to left, a movement that is plainly felt in the hands as a disagreeable jar. Even should the club-face approach the ball in a line perpendicular to the direction of the intended drive, it no longer remains so on meeting the ball.
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READE, T. “Toeing” and “Heeling” at Golf. Nature 36, 580 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036580c0
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