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Old 03-29-2009, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by O.B.Left View Post
TGM is not a method, as Homer Kelley and Yoda would have it anyways.

Others may try to make it so, but that was never Mr Kelleys intention.

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Yep. The spirit of TGM is that there's no one way to swing a golf club and hit it effectively. I get the feeling some teacher, and from the sounds of it I can guess who, probably erroneously told him that TGM is one method of hitting along with some other erroneous stuff about TGM as well.

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Old 03-29-2009, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Richie3Jack View Post
Yep. The spirit of TGM is that there's no one way to swing a golf club and hit it effectively. I get the feeling some teacher, and from the sounds of it I can guess who, probably erroneously told him that TGM is one method of hitting along with some other erroneous stuff about TGM as well.

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John Paul Newport wrote about Ben Doyle as well. John Paul Newport is a fan of TGM and knows there is more than one way to skin a cat.
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Old 03-29-2009, 10:34 PM
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John Paul Newport wrote about Ben Doyle as well. John Paul Newport is a fan of TGM and knows there is more than one way to skin a cat.
When I read this:

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The Stack and Tilt swing may remind some of the Natural Golf swing popularized by Canadian Moe Norman, but nobody would confuse Stack and Tilt with the swing detailed in "The Golfing Machine," a thick 1969 instruction manual by Homer Kelley which also has many devotees on the PGA Tour, including most avidly Steve Elkington.

One thing all these swing styles have in common is that they are marketed -- by some, at least -- as the one true way.
Perhaps Newport has either changed his mind about TGM or is just trying to 'make the column' for his case about the Stack N Tilt. But it's not a swing, it's 'swings' detailed in TGM. And really TGM is about all of these true ways or as Mr. Kelley stated in 1-H

'There is no effort to classify any Stroke Pattern as the best or the worst, except on the basis of Mechanical Advantage. But there is undoubtedly a best 'central' Stroke Pattern for each individual.

I don't want to come off as upset by the article, but I do think it's a rather gross misrepresentation of TGM. And for better or for worse I hold the media to a higher standard when it comes to accuracy, regardless of what the subject matter is.




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