I'm not entirely sure this is the correct thread - moderators fell free to move it to a more appropriate location - but I thought it important enough that I want to share it with the rest of my TGMers.
In 1972, Nicklaus 20th anniversary as a golfer - Alistair Cooke wrote a piece on Mr Nicklaus and his intention of going for a Grand Slam. It sort of caught my attention because Tiger Woods will be 32 in a few weeks. But in this article a paragraph stood out and I figured it may be of benefit to those of you who teach TGM.
Much of the difficulty of teaching, and learning, golf has to do with the rich ambiguities of the simplest English words. Taking the club 'back' is not the same as taking it 'behind'. 'Pushing' the club back is a whole stage of development beyond 'lifting' it. To take an example that prolonged one habit of dufferdom for over twenty years, and mentally aggravated Nicklaus's trouble with his head, there is the routine injunction very popular in the 1920s to 'keep your eye on the ball'. It was a phrase deplored even then by Bobby Jones, and it drove the irascible Tommy Armour to swear that it was 'the most abysmal advice ever given by the ignorant to the stupid'. The point these dissenters wished to make was that it is possible to lurch and sway all over the place, maybe even to lie down , while still keeping your eye on the ball. To keep watching the ball as it leaves the club , instead of the spot it lay on, is now said to be fatal. The famous phrase was later seen to mean no more, but no less, than to 'keep the head still'. Golf arguments, even between the best pros, often resolve not around a difference of insight but around an image that means one thing to one man and something else to another.
Reading that I realised, that despite Homer Kelley's somewhat terse prose, TGM is so much easier to understand. Yet, there are still terms in ther that I fail to completely comprehend.
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