![]() In fact, so deep became their symbiosis that they talked of ‘‘we” in the context of his work as well as in their private lives. Offsite Link by Anonymousįrom The Red Tent on, when Eletha worked on the picture in Russia as a third assistant ‘‘rustling up tea and a wonderful sight in her fur boots”, according to Peter, she became more and more directly involved in his work. He also became less easy-going, less outgoing, far less open-handed and less trustful and in his cups his streak of coarseness re-emerged. Under Eletha’s influence he became less insecure and more content. How could he help but be lost in wonder and admiration at the way Eletha always ended her pronouncements with, “Am I right.” It was this lack of arrogance and aggression, he knew, that had made it impossible for him to be a successful “Up yours!” man. “Arse-licker” was her favourite epithet for such folk she decided belonged in this category nor was Peter spared this epithet when from time to time she felt it necessary to warn him of the traps into which his good manners and good nature might propel him.Īlthough in the past Peter had never underrated his talents, he had been constantly tormented by self-doubt, plagued by indecisions and by the clear recognition of his faults and shortcomings. She would have dismissed such a quality in herself contemptuously as servile and abasing, as arse- licking. For one thing, she was not hampered by humility - spiritual or otherwise. Peter found Eletha’s view of himself and the world refreshingly different from his own. All through the shooting of The Legend of Lylah Clare Eletha remained with Peter, a seeming shadow in the background, yet, in fact, always by his side. She left her child with her mother, Miss Bertha, and together she and Peter took off for California. She told him she would go with him anytime, anyplace, anywhere in the world. He asked her if she would go with him to Hollywood. When Peter returned to Jamaica, Eletha was waiting for him, unshakeable in her loyalty. She just wanted to be able to tell her girlfriends that she was sleeping with a movie star.”Įletha recalled for journalist Helen Lawrenson that she would weave a powerful spell around him and keep him with her always and always keep him safe. In many ways she was a real star-struck kid. ![]() “Eletha always let Peter know loud and clear that she was different from all the other women, those bad women chasing after him who just wanted jewels and pretty clothes and money and photographs taken of them together to further their careers, and that she wanted nothing of him but himself and that he owed her nothing. It was only after he had settled down with Eletha in 1968 that he felt liberated enough to announce in The New York Times that he was illegitimate. ” Eletha was illegitimate and proud of it.“I’m illegitimate, my mother is illegitimate, my father is illegitimate and my son is illegitimate,” she was to say later to Peter’s friends and family, with seeming defiance. “She was rough-cut,” recalls the Jamaican journalist Doug Campbell who had known her for many years, “Eletha was always rough-cut. Said Peter of her approvingly, “She’s a true primitive.”Įletha was also very much an “Up yours!” person. ![]() She was a bundle of energy with an explosive voice and conversed as someone remarked, “ at the top of her lungs”, in a sing-song Jamaican accent. In any case, by 1965 they were acquainted and by 1966, when Eletha was twenty-two a Possibly this gave him a feeling of continuity as he had met his former wives on beaches. Golfers should dedicate a large amount of practice time to gripping the club correctly and aiming it in harmony with their body.According to Peter, he first met Eletha on the beach in St Anne’s Bay where he used to swim. You will almost never, ever get a flat lie in golf and yet where do most people in the UK pour their practice time? A flat range mat with the same repeated technique.Ī lack of attention to the club face and aim. True improvement comes from making your practice as realistic to the golf course as possible - uneven lies, different targets, different flights. If you simply use the amount of balls hit and time spent as a measure of practice, you won’t progress as quickly as you might like. This comes from lessons based around enhancing their ability and understanding that perfection does not exist in golf.ĭon’t just go to a driving range and beat balls thinking you will improve. I believe that golfers need to stop looking at other players and wishing they had 'that swing' and focus on trying to develop their own unique and trusted action. Delivering online free lessons to golfers across the globe with a combined social following of almost one million people, Peter is one of the most recognisable PGA professionals in the game.
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