Reading the Book
 

Hi Jerry,

And Welcome Aboard.

Do you own a copy of The Golfing Machine?

If so, make liberal use of The Index and The Glossary.

If not, I'm afraid you are going to find these forums pretty tough sledding. Not because the concepts are necessarily difficult, but because Homer Kelley invented a very necessary terminology that ultimately offers great simplification. However, without a basic understanding of that terminology, you'll struggle. It will be like trying to understand even Kindegarden concepts...but in a class conducted in Russian.

Mac O'Grady GM#219
 

The only 'flaws' of the book are its brevity -- which was by design -- and its terminology -- which poses an initial barrier but which later opens wide the gate. Beyond that, the 'flaw' rests with us and our inability to understand the basic ideas that serve as the System's foundation. Without that basis, in Homer's own words, "more information means only more confusion."

A competent TGM Authorized Instructor is the only solution. Unfortunately, and here I'll twist the phrase of some ancient bard, 'few are called and even fewer are chosen.' And so, most of us are left to deal with the problem on our own. And like Pogo, "we has seen the enemy...

And it is us."

Yoda What have you discovered? GM#244
 

I have added nothing 'new' to The Golfing Machine. I have worked very hard over many years to understand its Principles and its Procedures. My gift is communication, and I use every means at my disposal to assist my students in mastering its core concepts in a fraction of the time it took me.

Cumbersome? BM#55
 

SuperDave,

You find The Golfing Machine unintelligible for the same reason you
would find a post-introductory text in virtually any technical field
unintelligible: You understand neither the concepts being presented
nor the professional terms used to present them. This would be
particularly true of a Handbook whose stated goal is to briefly acquaint
the student with both.

With diligent application, the reader can bootstrap himself to the level of
the text as presented. Or, for a shorter way to the same objective, he can
train under a competent Authorized Instructor. Absent one or the other or
both of these approaches, the book will remain inaccessible. That fact does
not detract from the genius of Homer Kelley's work...


It reveals it.