SHARPEN UP YOUR SHORT GAME
The world’s greatest golf photographer, David Cannon, tells a wonderful story about a shoot with Seve Ballesteros on the beach near his home in Pedrena (see page 64). It involves a bag of old practice balls, a 9 and a 3-iron, a stick, an empty soup can and a napkin, and the legend was recreating the makeshift practice facilities he’d build for himself in the sand when he was a child. There were no video cameras or phones. No highly-paid performance coaches to offer advice. He just wanted to get those battered old balls into the soup can in the fewest shots possible – that’s how he developed his legendary creativity. He wasn’t alone, either. Old Tom Morris learned the game by chipping corks at the lampposts of St Andrews’ streets; Ben Hogan…
