TGM Leadbetterified
 

Charles Howell is a DL pupil and I've heard from reliable sources DL keeps The Golfing Machine in his drawer all the time. Reading the text in this series is pretty amazing. So many TGM concepts in there, even though TGM is never mentioned.

You know the game when a sentence is whispered from ear to ear and come out slightly distorted in the end.

Here's that game applied on the TGM->Leadbetter->Howell->Journalist sequence.

http://www.golfonline.com/golfonline...030781,00.html

I was told by a current Leadbetter instructor that they are not required to read the book but it is made available to them.

Might have sounded as if I was coming after Leadbetter. I have neither reason or intent to do that. I have no clue about him, other than that I do not find his instruction videos the least impressing. But if he'd give me a lesson I'd take it!

I only wanted to point out what I though of as an excellent example of "TGM under the hood".

Anyway I've edited the post deleting "Also requires assistants to read it".

Holy crap.

Look at this picture and then the next 3 after it:

http://www.golfonline.com/golfonline...0781-5,00.html

Wow. Mint swing.

If this is AFTER his "de-lagging" I'll...(rhymes with "hit a lick"...).

Howell Takes TGM Lessons
 

Howell takes lessons from a GSED (George Kelnhofer) in Atlanta and has been for some time. He even has Kelnhofer's fancy Accelerized Golf setup in his home in Orlando. I took a few lessons at Accelerized Golf a few years ago and the CEO told me Howell used to frequent the place, but that they were going to setup the Accelerized Golf system in his house which they subsequently did.

E.

Re: Howell Takes TGM Lessons
 

When you say "takes" . Is that in the present tense? I know George Kelnhofer has had a far greater part in building Howells swing than Leadbetter but was not aware that both were helping him at the same time.

Did you catch the episode of Academy Live (it was probably 6 months ago) that featured Howell and his high tech golf setup in his house? Anyway, the guy on that show with Howell is a guy named Oswald Drawdy (another Kelnhofer protege') and he was my instructor. According to him, Howell used to visit the Accelerized Golf Center in Atlanta and take lessons from Kelnhofer which led to Howell setting up the Accelerized Golf technology at his Orlando home. Even now, Accelerized Golf runs their commercials using Howell as a pitchman and he talks about how he uses the techonology all the time.

Of course I haven't been back to Accelerized Golf since I started taking lessons at the "Swamp" in Marietta (Lynn and Ted) so the Howell/Kelnhofer relationship may have changed, but my guess is that Leadbetter is still his main teacher and Kelnhofer tunes him up a bit as well. Who knows though?! Teacher/student relationships change all the time.

E.

Time for my leadbetter story, so grab a cool one while a type.

I had a chance to play an exclusive private golf course with some folks from another golf forum- a golf course architecture forum. Nice people, extremely wealthy, multiple country clubs membership people. A gentleman that I played with sat at lunch and spoke of his week long golf trip to the NE- he played Westchester, Wing Foot, Pine Valley, Plainfield and heading to Congressional.

It turned out that he was in my foursome. After a few holes I noticed something- he set up his right forearm in line with the shaft at address. The only other golfer on the course doing that was- Me!

I had to ask with who was his instructor.

“Where did you learn that?” I knew he was going to say Blake or Fort or someone like that.

“Leadbetter, he is my instructor.” I had no reason to doubt him. “ He is teaching Els the same set up.”


This guy had a nice set up, beautiful swing, he had a magic right forearm.

I guess Leadbetter is quietly learning his TGM from the Blake revival.

Hi Lead- what’s your screen name????

FWIW Charles Howell also played his college golf at Oklahoma State, so there is another TGM influence there as well.

Moe Normans said it the best when was talking about leadbetter

"artificial strokes for artificial folks".... I could bust a gut with laughing so hard when heard that....