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Old 03-29-2009, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by purehitter View Post
John Paul Newport wrote about Ben Doyle as well. John Paul Newport is a fan of TGM and knows there is more than one way to skin a cat.
When I read this:

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The Stack and Tilt swing may remind some of the Natural Golf swing popularized by Canadian Moe Norman, but nobody would confuse Stack and Tilt with the swing detailed in "The Golfing Machine," a thick 1969 instruction manual by Homer Kelley which also has many devotees on the PGA Tour, including most avidly Steve Elkington.

One thing all these swing styles have in common is that they are marketed -- by some, at least -- as the one true way.
Perhaps Newport has either changed his mind about TGM or is just trying to 'make the column' for his case about the Stack N Tilt. But it's not a swing, it's 'swings' detailed in TGM. And really TGM is about all of these true ways or as Mr. Kelley stated in 1-H

'There is no effort to classify any Stroke Pattern as the best or the worst, except on the basis of Mechanical Advantage. But there is undoubtedly a best 'central' Stroke Pattern for each individual.

I don't want to come off as upset by the article, but I do think it's a rather gross misrepresentation of TGM. And for better or for worse I hold the media to a higher standard when it comes to accuracy, regardless of what the subject matter is.




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