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andlt;Bandgt;CHAPTER ONEandlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;Bandgt;andlt;Iandgt;Why This Book Is as Short and Simple as It Isandlt;/Iandgt;andlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;After declining numerous proposals to write a book of golf instruction, I took on the task which this book represents.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;The responsibility was accepted because I have been allowed to teach in this book as I teach on the lesson tee -- without embellishment or padding to stretch out the basic training, and without a multitude of detail to confuse the pupil.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;The brevity of this book may shock those who have been encouraged to believe that a good golf game may be bought by the page, pound or hour -- or even bought.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;I have paid for hundreds of lessons when I was a lad and didn't have much money to pay as tuition fees. Vardon, Duncan, Braid, Taylor and Edgar -- all great players and all gifted teachers -- were among my instructors who not only taught me the foundation of golf but also taught me how to learn.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Association with the greatest American players added to my instruction. As I competed against them I studied them, and as I have played friendly rounds with them or followed them in some of their competitions, I have continued to be the student.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Simplicity, concentration, and economy of time and effort have been the distinguishing features of the great players' and great teachers' methods which have added to what I consider my knowledge of the game.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Hundreds of pages that might have accompanied these that you will read were eliminated from the first draft of the manuscript. Dozens of illustrations showing interim phases of the swing were cut out, and I have retained only those pictorial moments in the swing which are significant in so far as instruction is concerned. I decided that those pages and drawings portrayed refinements of technique not suitable for the practical use of most golfers and would distract the reader from profitable concentration on the essentials.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Copyright andamp;copy; 1998 by Tommy Armour