Sept 2005 Golf Digest
 

Because of my studies in The Golfing Machine- I read the two major golf magazines sparingly. I enjoy the ‘Major’ issues- but the instruction reeks.

I did subscribe to a year's worth of Golf Digest because the price was right- FREE. I got my last issue today with a big notice to now pay for a real subscription. I was thinking maybe......

George Pepper wrote a book called The Secret of Golf that explains the secrets from 47 instructors and theories. Homer Kelley is one of the 47 detailed in the book, but in the magazine excerpt he is not one of the 18 listed.

Instead of Homer Kelley, readers get Jack Kuykendall- a certifiable loon, and Count Yogi- a fraud, whose under instruction I ever could find of his is to be simple and relaxed and just let it happen- Great !
Also instead of Homer, Dick Aultman’s Square to Square, Peter Beames’s Walk-through-swing, ala G. Player- so let s steer and hit off balance. It is sad. Not to mention David “Gravity” Lee is included.

One of my favorites- Percy Boomer’s secret reads like TGM- turn mechanics into feel and let the pivot produce lag (my words). And J. Douglas Edger’s secret reads like Boomer’s book- On Learning Golf.

So- no, I won’t subscribe to Golf Digest even at the free price. Sorry for the rant.

I looked it up on their webpage to see what you were refering to and it makes me wanna barf alot too.....

http://www.golfdigest.com/search/?/f...etofgolf1.html

Somethings wrong with the world....

I picked up the book which I like. The Golfing Machine only has two or three pages versus 8-9 for some of the other Secrets. Joe Dante on the other hand has a very nice write up.

Re: Sept 2005 Golf Digest
 

I'm on the same "free" subscription plan and got the same expiration notice... I also made the same decision not to renew. By the way, did you see in that issue that Tiger said he is hitting better drives, now that he is using a Stationary Head? Go figure. :D

What about the very first statement below the photos at the top of the article: "Henry Cotton said, educate the hands." Where have we heard this? :D

Ya man! I read that article last night!

Secret?!?!? My ass.

There is no one secret....and if there is one then I agree with Homer- it is clubhead lag and sustaining the line of compression.

They even say in the intro: "As even Tiger knows, great golf doesn't last. We can play over our heads for a few shots, a few holes, maybe even a few rounds, but not forever. Inevitably, the secret dies--the magic move, miracle key or foolproof method we'd clung to suddenly stops working, and we have no choice but to search for another."

We have no choice but to search for another???? What? So are they pushing the WOOD method now? I doubt Tiger needs to go "look for another (quick fix)." How about- "I had a bad round."

That article is garbage....it's only there because it's something they can put on the front page- hell, even I wanted to read that article when I saw it. But it looks like it was thrown together by a 20 handicapper who doesn't know the swing himself.

These articles should only be a "time-filler" read...but too many people actually take this approach to golf IMO.

-Paul

Homer would be the first to say he didn't invent the wheel. Many have the similar concepts and thoughts about the swing.

Homer did develop a better way to look at it and his approach, daunting for sure, is the first of its kind. Nobody has presented it better. No one.


As for secerts, birdie man, there are none that works like a magic pill.

Practice mechanics to produce feel...... you know the rest.

A flying wedge here, extensor action there, a few choice pressure points in the mix, throw it DOWN....... ------ > a machine you got. (more or less, lol)

Actaully what one can find interesting is

a. How many of the so called secrets are documented in TGM?

b. How many of the so called secrets came before or after TGM was published?

If anything, one could with some time using this and other articles that are raised to the level of the greatest golf instruction, to show that TGM is in fact complete, it has it all, not just a bit here or there? That is not to say that everyone has it right but at least they are looking for and attempting to identify components and variations of the golf stroke and the principles the drive the golf stroke.

They, unlike this group, still have a way to go....

What, no mention of the EdZ drills?

Balance?

You would think such a 'unifying theory' would get some attention!

](*,) \:D/

Did they at least list the imperatives and essentials in the section on TGM?

lag pressure?

Quite a lot of TGM in some of those 'secrets' from what I see.

I like this one:

Paul Trevillion

Secret >> Control the stroke with the right palm, letting the left wrist act as a hinge. Grasp the top of the grip with the left hand, then slide the right hand down the shaft (the shorter the putt, the lower the right hand).


Hmmm... so the farther down I grip the putter, the more the motion becomes exactly like tossing a ball underhanded with an extention of the right hand...... :idea: