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.
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
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"If you can't yet do it on the angled plane, go back to the horizontal plane until you get it right"
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 I can be a pretty damn good instructor from all the stuff I've picked up.
Last edited by birdie_man : 10-31-2005 at 10:48 PM.
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.
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).
...there was this guy called Yoda who spoke about golf at a different level anything I've seen.
Mathew,
Thank you for all your contributions to our site and to Homer Kelley's great work, The Golfing Machine®. Your unsolicited animation of the Hinge Action concept (Sketch 1-L) is revolutionary and will one day be recognized for the genius that it is.
Can't wait to see you next year at LBG Academy St. Andrews 2006. Get ready...
Thank you for all your contributions to our site and to Homer Kelley's great work, The Golfing Machine®. Your unsolicited animation of the Hinge Action concept (Sketch 1-L) is revolutionary and will one day be recognized for the genius that it is.
Can't wait to see you next year at LBG Academy St. Andrews 2006. Get ready...
Maybe 8 or 10 yrs ago when I was flipping on chips and having trouble keeping my left wrist flat someone (don't remember)told me keeping the bend in my right wrist would keep the left flat. That stuck and it became something I'd fall back on... but only in the short game. Then a year ago on GEA someone named DukeNasty took a lesson from Yoda... and mentioned the the bent right wrist. I went to the range and tried hitting full shots that way and slowly had some sucess... bought the book and was convinced it was a unique work by a very intelligent man... went to see Ted Fort in Feb 05 and that is the story.
I can be a pretty damn good instructor from all the stuff I've picked up. 
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