Originally Posted by siksta
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According to stats Golf books are the most saturated sports book in all sports combined and only 2% are even writen or edited by actual tour pros the rest well no explanation - hence the word propaganda.
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Homer Kelley wasn't a golfing professional either.
And Pelz could play and probably could have beaten most of us from time to time.
Homer came up with much better conclusions, concepts and ideas than say Ben Hogan...arguably the greatest ballstriker that ever lived....did in '5 Lessons.' Pelz is a smart guy, but his studies were scientifically flawed and led to flawed conclusions. The 'optimal putting speed' (17" past the cup) was poorly researched beyond belief.
The big thing I learned from Pelz and TGM is just because a person is labeled a scientist, doesn't mean that they researched their work accurately and scientifically and they are not prone to errors. Homer Kelley understood that and that's why he had 7 editions. There's no doubt in my mind that he would take in new information that was found to be more accurate and do a mea culpa. OTOH, Pelz doesn't seem to want to do that (the most I've seen him bend is on the SBST stroke vs. the Arced Stroke).
A large part of science is about trial and error, then observation. It's not in a vacuum where a scientist comes up with a theory and is always 100% correct. I feel like the crowd that is into bashing TGM and never really saying a good word about it have that idea that a scientist should always be right. I'm far more interested in the scientist that comes up with concepts and understands that they may not be 100% accurate and will need some tweaking to fully understand the truth.
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