First edition (1973) copy of Swing the Handle, Not the Clubhead: A Great Method to Improve Your Golf Game by Eddie Merrins.

In Swing the Handle, Eddie Merrins, a highly respected teacher and player, offers golfers a total, yet amazingly simple, method for producing a mechanically perfect swing. 

The cancer of golf shotmaking, says Merrins, is the player's attempt to control the moving clubhead with his or her hands and wrists, an attempt that is doomed to mis-align the clubhead, throw it off track and reduce its speed through impact. Problems that inevitable result include hitting from the top, slicing, hooking, sclaffing, topping. 

Merrins' Method provides a clear solution to these woes. Moreover, it explains how yu ca readily control your shot's length, direction, trajectory and "shape," merely by the manner un which you swing the grip-end of the club with your forearms.

In Swing the Handle, Merrins also explains just what proper wrist action is and how to produce it. He gives a simple three-step procedure that will assure you a correct grip. He details proper set-up and tells you how to use your legs. He describes tempo and rhythm and tells you how to combine these often misunderstood facets of the swing. He shows you how to apply the same principles used on full swings to pitch, chip and sand shots and putts, thus eliminating many variables from your game. Finally, he tells you how to take your new swing onto the course and make it work. 

Much of Merrins' Method is revolutionary. Inevitably some areas will be questioned by other instructors, just as they were (and found valid) by Golf Digest editors. All the author asks is that you read with an open mind and then see for yourself how swinging the handle improves your shots.  

Hardcover with dust jacket

Author: Eddit Merrins

Edition/Year: first edition, 1973, Golf Digest

Condition: slight wear on dust jacket, otherwise in decent vintage condition.

Dimensions: 11.5" x 8.5"