Gotta say that the "cult" comment about put me off cool aide! I allowed both my Golf Digest and Golf World subscription to expire (my wife was jubilant.) I will buy a copy from the news stand when they feature Yoda, or another sincere Kelley disciple. What aggravates me is that although there is an obligatory nod to The Golfing Machine, they retool the lingo to suit the "my way" approach. I do not expect them to reference the book as expertly as Yoda and Ben Doyle do but doctors don't reinterpret what Gray's Anatomy standardized, right? There is no profit in it; and patients would probably die! There is too much transliteration for the purpose of marketing out there. Perhaps I am bitter but a great many so-called swing gurus appear like "occultists" to me, by the way they shroud their secrets in a mystical fog of semantics.
A Memorial Day anecdote. I passed the "burger flipper" to my 8 year old son over the weekend, making him my BBQ aide decamp. I discovered that flipping burgers is not as easy as one one would think! We lost some ground, and beef before I introduced him to the hands controlled pivot! I explained that if he focused on turning the burger over with the spatula that it would make the task tougher, but if he focused on turning his hand over, palm down that the spatula would comply. "Flip the spatula with the pressure points in your hands, young padawan!"
Back to my tirade...Ironically, and sadly the quick-fix tendency of homo sapiens, and the committment to study and incubation that TGM demands relegates Homer Kelley disciples to the "few in the know", making TGM seem like the Illuminati! Real thought, not merely rearranging your predjudices, is the hardest of all work someone once said.
I raise a flat left wrist and and a bent right to Yoda for making his teaching MESSAGE centered as opposed to MESSENGER centered. Beside my own (which I nurture) I find egoism repugnant!
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PS I shed a tear when upon returning from a session on the range, my son asked "How those flying wedges, Dad?"
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