What brought you to TGM?
 

I'm curious about the story that brought you to TGM and why you stuck with it.
We all have a story, it would be interesting to hear the common threads.

Bagger

Various things - Alot of people where reading it on Manzellas forum and Brian himself said some interesting stuff and wanted to see what the fuss was about. When I looked up the golfing machine and looked at the forum there, there was this guy called Yoda who spoke about golf at a different level anything I've seen.

Ordered the book and here I am - studying it and love it. This stuff is just so much better than anything out there.

I just wanted to learn the proper golf swing. From what I was being taught by my Pro (Flat Left Wrist) I wanted to find out more and thus my journey in TGM.
I also like how its not a cookie cutter method as is quite a lot of the theories out there today, the book has options and I like that.
Alex

Back about 7 years ago, somehow I wanted to go back and study Mac's swing (not sure why, but again, those days I was 'flavor of the month' when studying the swing). I called up the publisher of Golf Digest and ordered the 1987 GD copy with Mac on the cover titled 'Best Swing on Tour?'. In the article, Mac reference seeking out Homer and his book, etc. I then proceeded to see if I could do a web search on 'The Golfing Machine'. Found a contact number so I decided to call and order it....at first, I thought I called the wrong number as a sweet old lady picked up the phone and said, "H-Hello?".

I said, "I'm sorry, I was trying to order a copy of The Golfing Machine but I think I have the wrong number." The voice said, "Oh no, I've got plenty of copies right here." I laughed and she laughed and she asked if she could sign the book for Homer for me...I said sure. I then asked, "Is this Mrs. Kelley?" She said, "I sure hope so!"

And now you know the rest of the story! The copy came about 4 days later....

FL-John

I took a lesson from a local non-TGM pro. He didn't tell/show me anything I couldn't read in Golf Digest for a lot cheaper, and I already knew most of that info was junk/incomplete. I Read some of David Laville's (sp?) posts on various newsgroups, which got me to buy the book, which led me to the TGM forums, which led me to the much better forums on Brian Manzella's, Chuck's, and now Lynn's websites.

The small victories, improvements in ballstriking, and knowing that one of these days I'm going to try to find time to schedule a visit with Lynn keep me moving along (plodding at the moment).

I was reading freegolfinfo.com.....

Got directed to some Manzella guy's golf forum....

Learned 10 times more real information than I ever have anywhere else.....had been reading GD and other random, vague, conflicting clutter before that- like lots of people.

TGM just really made sense to me and appealed to me right off the bat....I've always found it easy to tell whether something was genuine or not...the difference between quality info. and so-so stuff- clutter.

And I was obsessed with golf and perfecting my swing before that so.....here I am.

Honestly haven't made a HUGE breakthrough with my game yet but it got me away from some other crap swing things I was doing before or may have gotten drawn into (stay away from drugs kids!).

But I know it'll come together eventually.

And besides, if I don't make it to the Tour :cool: I can be a pretty damn good instructor from all the stuff I've picked up. :cool:

I'm like birdieman. Started on FGI and got intrigued by Brian's posts. Got directed to Chuck Evans site. After reading some posts from a fanatic calling himself Yoda, borrowed TGM from the library and started to digest it. It really appealed to the analytic part of me. That and I started to hit the ball much better than I did before.

Likewise David Lavelle- a forgotten early advocate of TGM. Bought the book at Rum Point GC in Ocean City, Maryland in the pro shop of all places. But after a few friends started learning from Mac and they noticed I knew what they were talking about and that I had a copy of Mac's yellow book- the hook was set. Lynn reeled it in.

Chuck's early site with PhillyGolf exploding questions in my head and followed Manzella from FGI exile to his are to other sources.

David Laville
 

The sequence:

David Laville offering very solid advice on some forum or newsgroup somewhere.

Took me to:

1. Brians site.
2. The forum on thegolfingmachine.com with the mystical "Yoda" who seemed to know everything. :)
3. Ben's video and the book

Downhill from there.

Sucker for Physics
 

I was perusing the GEA site about 6 months or so ago and kept seeing these "TGM" threads crop up from time to time. However, no one ever defined what that was or meant. I finally saw a reference to the Lynn Blake web site. I slowly gathered information and finally the yellow book. Basically, with a physics and math degree, TGM is a natural fit since I have always tried to analyze the game from a mechanics / geometrical perspective. I went in whole hog this past weekend with Lynn, Ted, and Lee at the SoCal LBGA. Now we get to see if I can apply what I have learned and improve over the next year!