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Golfer Ike Eisenhower, who has his troubles breaking 90, got a few tips this week from Old Pro Tommy Armour, 57, who has trouble breaking 70 nowadays. But in his prime (the 19205), Armour managed to win professional golf's triple crown: the U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. Sitting down with a batch of Ike-in-action photographs for This Week Magazine, Armour tells the President what is right-and wrong-with his game. The rest of the U.S.'s 3,265,000 golfers could profit by Armour's tips...
...President, says Armour, is "at his golfing best" on the pitch shot: "the most valuable stroke-saving shot in the game" (head down, grip strong, feet close together). Says Armour: "It is probably the reason the President gets around the golf course in the respectable scores I read about." Ike is also a hot shot out of a bunker, with "practically perfect" technique (feet flat, head down, full follow-through). Says Armour: "Perhaps President Eisenhower has spent a lot of time in sand traps...
...fairway, however, Ike's swings and footwork have a few kinks-the result, Armour supposes, of a bad knee (an old football injury). Ike's main trouble in almost every picture: "His right knee, and consequently his right side, has 'locked' [i.e., stiffened] during the hit." Another of Ike's form faults which Ar mour calls "not permissible": his arms are sometimes bent on the follow-through, instead of going "straight out after the ball...
...Armour's fond hope, he says, that Ike will ask him in for an hour or so of coaching some day. Armour's promise: to take five strokes off Ike's score...
Jolly Jackie, temperamentally a fine match player in her amateur days, has found it a little hard to settle down to tight-lipped medal play where each stroke counts. Canny Scotsman Tommy Armour taught her a few tricks of the old-pro trade. Moans Jackie: "When somebody drops a long putt against me, I'm not supposed to compliment her at all. Just turn and walk off to the next tee." Jackie, who gave up a $185-a-month job with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Honolulu for the faster money on the fairways, has been a quick study...