[Richie3Jack]

From my experience, reading and understanding the book is very helpful for the student and mandatory for instructors. Even if you don't agree with everything in the book, there's way too much useful information.

The terminology intimidates some. I also think Homer Kelley had a peculiar way of writing, almost comes off like he's writing haikus, and that intimidates people as well. However, that style of writing really appeals to golfers who understand the book eventually. Or at least from the golfers I've talked to.

The greatest thing for me about the book is that it really taught me how to feel and go about learning how to feel in the most effective manner by learning feel from mechanics instead of the other way around and using the basic/acquired/total motion curriculum to do it.

Yep, all that intimidating talk about terminology and such, and IMO the book is at least 50% about the golfer training themselves to feel or the instructor helping the student learn how to fee.

I hear a lot of critics say that 'you'd have to be an MIT physicist to learn that book!'

Hogwash. All it takes is some time, patience and effort.

I'm certainly not a rocket scientist by any stretch and I know other TGM'ers that can't balance their checkbook but have understood TGM.

Time, patience and effort.

I think this Web site is the greatest resource as far as the Web goes. Get the book, make sure to read the book in proper order. If you get stuck, do a search here, look at some videos here. You may also want to try out Peter Croker's 'TGM Downloads' for a good basic overview of concepts. And if you get stuck from there, do some google searches.

The problem I had before TGM was just overall confusion. And instead of trying to figure out what works best for me in my golf swing, I would often start looking at others and say 'well, he does that maybe I should try that.' That would only lead to more problems and more confusion. TGM shows why that works for that particular golfer. And more importantly, it's an IMPACT focused golf instruction system. Not a BACKSWING FOCUSED golf instruction method.

What helped me the most with understanding TGM was grasping who Homer Kelley was. Mr. Kelley was more or less a 'problem solver' at Boeing. I believe he looked at golf and came up with the question of 'how do we solve the problem of learning how to hit a golf effectively.' He then figured out that there were almost countless ways to do so and he created a 'manual' for us to figure out what 'way' works best for us.







3JACK