The Yellow Book

[curtisj76]

Ok - I'm going to buy the book very soon. Do new editions come out ever or should I just buy what is sold on Amazon? Thanks

[Yoda]

Ok - I'm going to buy the book very soon. Do new editions come out ever or should I just buy what is sold on Amazon? Thanks

The sixth edition (1982) is the most current. Homer left revisions for a seventh, but despite persistent promises since his death in 1983, there has been none.

[elliskit]

Homer left revisions for a seventh...

I have seen many references to the seventh edition notes and have seen several posts, from different people, which communicate, in detail, what some of the notes include.

Who has copies of these notes and how did they get them?
Would it be possible for the common TGM golfer (not AI) to get a copy of the notes , as an alternative to waiting for the elusive seventh edition ?

[alex_chung]

I have seen many references to the seventh edition notes and have seen several posts, from different people, which communicate, in detail, what some of the notes include.

Who has copies of these notes and how did they get them?
Would it be possible for the common TGM golfer (not AI) to get a copy of the notes , as an alternative to waiting for the elusive seventh edition ?

I don't you can get them easily. Only a select few have access or copies to the notes and they are not likely to be available to mere mortals such as you or I.
Its just a pity, that the 7th was never published.
Alex

[Delaware Golf]

I don't you can get them easily. Only a select few have access or copies to the notes and they are not likely to be available to mere mortals such as you or I.
Its just a pity, that the 7th was never published.
Alex

On cassette tape, I have Tom Tomasello saying..."I have the 7th edition too"....the conversation between Tommy and myself was about how the book became longer by comparing the 1st edition to the 6th edition (approximately 100 more pages in the 6th)...I wish I could turn the clock back to see if Tommy was refering to an actual printed copy of the 7th edition!!!

DG

[Yoda]

Joe Daniels announced today at The Golfing Machine Summit in Birmingham that the 7th edition would be out in a matter of weeks.

Wonderful.

Did he say how the editorial process was (or is) being handled? Has there been any kind of Review Board appointed? Or is it just a Committee of One? I have not been contacted for any input, and I don't know anyone else who has.

I promise there are errors in the 7th Edition revisions that he alone will not catch. There is at least one major change that demands changes in several areas for consistency of presentation. And there is text that unless rewritten does not say what Homer meant to say. Not to mention the errors in the 6th that the 7th revisions don't catch.

I applaud the promise of publication.

And will give the actual event a standing ovation.

But the job is bigger than one man.

Here's hoping he gets it right.

[psheehan]

Ok - I'm going to buy the book very soon. Do new editions come out ever or should I just buy what is sold on Amazon? Thanks

You should buy the book at www.thegolfingmachine.com instead of amazon. Amazon has 'resale' copies and are generally more expensive. I bought another copy the other day as a gift for a friend... I think it was approx. $26 including shipping from the golfing machine sight.

[Mathew]

This sounds great and also look forward to the 7th Edition coming out but im going to wait for Yoda's review before I go and get it.

[Yoda]

This sounds great and also look forward to the 7th Edition coming out but im going to wait for Yoda's review before I go and get it.

When Homer Kelley left Seattle for Macon, Georgia, to speak to the Georgia Section of the PGA some 23 years ago, the revisions for the 7th edition were on his desk. Some of the more important additions were incomplete, mere placeholders for what he planned on later adding. He expected, I am sure, to write that text and to clean up around certain other revisions when he returned.

But he did not return.

And that places a heavy burden on those who would publish the final edition of his work.

[kmmcnabb]

I got my last two copies of the yellow book from Ben Doyle web site. Great price and really fast too. Stay away from Amazon, I ordered my first copy from there a few years back and got the 4th edition which was not what I wanted.

Great news about the 7th but I will believe it when it happens. I like the forum for the interaction, video, etc. I really hope that they get the Golfing Machine site up and running but it has essentially been dead for quite a while.....unfortunately.