This photograph is, in itself, quite sufficient evidence to show us that Braid has abandoned his idea with regard to the necessity for turning over the right wrist at the moment of impact in the pull, but it is instructive to note that there is in the whole of _Advanced Golf_ not one word about turning over the wrists at the moment, of impact in the pull, so that we may take it as definitely settled that James Braid has, since the publication of _Great Golfers_, found out his error in this matter, for, against his one sentence in _Great Golfers_ that "in playing for a _pulled ball_ the right wrist turns over at the moment of impact," we have not only his statement in _How to Play Golf_ that the impact is a mere incident in the travel of the club head, but the still more eloquent fact that in _Advanced Golf_ he says no word whatever in support of this theory, and that he most expressly and emphatically by his own photographs contradicts the idea.
We need not consider what Taylor has to say in connection with the production of the pull, for we see clearly that his idea of both the slice and the pull is that they are merely errors in golf and not to be encouraged.
Let us turn now to a consideration of the slice. The same misconception which is so prominently shown by nearly every writer about golf with regard to the pull obtains also in connection with the slice. This is clearly shown by James Braid in _Great Golfers_, for following the quotation which I have already given with regard to the pulled ball, he says: "But for a sliced ball I cut a little across the ball, the wrist action being the reverse of that for a pull, viz., the right hand is rather under than over."
Here, in spite of what Braid says, it will be seen that his weight at the finish goes almost entirely on to the left foot.]
Braid tells us that for a pulled ball he turns his right wrist over _at the moment of impact_. Well, as the wrist action for the slice is the reverse of this, it follows that _at the moment of impact_ he turns his right wrist under. This is a very common misconception. It is one which is held by an astonishing number of practical players. Mr. Walter J. Travis in his book on _Practical Golf_ repeatedly makes the error of thinking that this turn under of the wrist has any effect whatever on the stroke, but it is just as great an error to think that this turn under of the wrist has anything to do with the production of the slice, as it is to think that the turning over of the wrist has anything whatever to do with the pull. Both of these actions quite naturally _follow_ the correct production of the strokes referred to.