A few years ago I was watching a tournament on TV and saw Brad Faxon interviewed on TV. He mentioned he was working with Ron Gring who was a golfing machine instructor. Had never even heard about TGM then. So, did a search on the internet, ordered the book, and actually read it. Didn't understand some things, but other things made sense. Put the book up on a shelf and forgot about it. Then,as I kept hitting various internet golf sites, I came upon Chuck Evans on golfopinions.com, and then some feisty guy on FGI named Manzella. Then, followed those 2 guys to their sites and began reading posts from some guy named Yoda. Pulled the book off the shelf, spent a day with Yoda last spring and some time with YodasLuke this fall. The journey is on! Dr Dave
June 2005 - I stumbled across a reference to TGM on the 4GEA site. Then went to Manzella's site and read the instructional articles and bought the Flipper video. Started to lurk on Lynns site daily. (HCP 12.5)
July 2005 - Bought the book from thegolfingmachine.com. Read it several times. Only focus was the 3 imperatives. Daily reading of Lynn's & Brian's forums as well as the archives.
Aug/Sept/Oct 2005 - Just absolutely love TGM. Read all forums daily. My consistency had improved vastly. TGM is the real deal. I dont even listen to or consider any other swing ideas. I now have TGM tunnel vision. If it isnt in the book I dont want to hear about it.
Oh yeah my HCP has dropped 5.5 strokes too. Now a 7.0 as of 10/31. All due to TGM. I love, Love, LOVE it.
Aug/Sept/Oct 2005 - Just absolutely love TGM. Read all forums daily. My consistency had improved vastly. TGM is the real deal. I dont even listen to or consider any other swing ideas. I now have TGM tunnel vision. If it isnt in the book I dont want to hear about it.
Oh yeah my HCP has dropped 5.5 strokes too. Now a 7.0 as of 10/31. All due to TGM. I love, Love, LOVE it.
Terrific post, JPs. Thanks for your inspiring story and for letting us know we helped along The Way.
FGI to Brian Manzella to Canton, GA - The rest is history. The greatest thing about the TGM journey aside from the oustanding improvement has been the great friends I've met - especially the crew at Canton - an All star cast I was privileged to "hang out" with.
Aug/Sept/Oct 2005 - Just absolutely love TGM. Read all forums daily. My consistency had improved vastly. TGM is the real deal. I dont even listen to or consider any other swing ideas. I now have TGM tunnel vision. If it isnt in the book I dont want to hear about it.
Oh yeah my HCP has dropped 5.5 strokes too. Now a 7.0 as of 10/31. All due to TGM. I love, Love, LOVE it.
Hahaha good stuff JP. I'm the same way man.....I pick up a GD sometimes out of curiosity but usually find myself laughing and bashing their stuff.
Last year I was really frustrated around December and wanted to see improvement this year. I saw TGM discussed on a forum that I frequent and looked into it. Saw some things that really made sense to me and took some lessons from Yoda and YodasLuke in February...after that I was hooked. Yoda and YodasLuke are just the nicest guys and they have a passion for TGM...this is because they know it works in describing and understanding the golf stroke.
I have made a lot of improvment this year...not completely where I want to be, but I am heading in the right direction.
a little over a year ago i decided to "find my own swing"...started experimenting in my garage hitting foam practice balls and seeing how the went off a 2-foot side X 8-foot tall board about 15-feet away...also started searching the internet for golf info and read about this moe norman guy...found a forum (SAGF) about swings like his and read a bunch (w/little useful info)...kept pounding balls trying to figure out what made them go where...a post on SAGF lead me to a debate on brian's site started by a SAGF-stalwart and i just started following the yellow-book road from there...like many others i found this little green guy whose posts made more sense than anything else i had read...read more about TGM and Mr. Kelley (and chuckled that he apparently did much of the research for TGM in his garage)..bought the book last january to be able to follow the references and have read it through twice...various circumstances kept me from playing much golf this summer and/or making it to an LBG affair, but i am striking the ball better, but need more practice time for consistancy and playing time for scoring...in reference to another thread i don't post much unless it's a non-TGM-technical topic like this one since i don't feel i have any expertise, but i'm having fun and making progress...don't have the time to browse tons of sites, but this is by far my first choice for usefull info (written and video)...thanks to everyone who puts so much effort into it...my wife and i don't usally exchange christmas gifts (just buy for the kids), but a LBG-DVD sounds pretty good this year...cheers!
I just started following the yellow-book road from there...like many others i found this little green guy whose posts made more sense than anything else i had read...
...don't have the time to browse tons of sites, but this is by far my first choice for useful info (written and video)...thanks to everyone who puts so much effort into it...my wife and i don't usually exchange christmas gifts (just buy for the kids), but a LBG-DVD sounds pretty good this year...cheers!
Thanks for this, hcw. Your post personalizes the mission, and I appreciate it.
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
I took up golf just under 10 years ago and from the start wanted to do things properly. At the time the Leadbetter swing was all the rage. Not Knowing any better I went down that route and ended up having a lot of lessons with Leadbetter's partner Denis Pugh. It did not work for me and I felt there was a huge hole in knowledge that I needed filling. I was not getting real info from the coaches when I asked them questions but knew somewhere out there there must be answers. Because I was not getting what I wanted from coaches I tried to work out what pros were doing by myself watching them and studying their swing's frame by frame. I noticed there were different actions that all seemed to work. So something was wrong with the idea that the single method being sold as the way. I experimented a lot but without good results because I could not find real help despite my best efforts to find people who could help me. My friend and playing partner David Hawkins (hawks92) is very big into golf equipment and told me about Golfopinions.com. Chuck Evans was the moderator there and I found his posts very interesting. They were very specific and unlike any of the ideas I had come across before. Chuck went on to form his own website and I followed him there . Phillygolf gave me some really good advice and I started to feel I was on to something. Brian then turned up at Golfopinions and made his thoughts clear on how poorly golf instruction was being served and ruffled a few feathers. Having been through loads of bad coaching I agreed with him. Everything he said was consistent with my real life experience findings. I read all of his posts and followed him to FGI after Golfopinions gave him the chop. The same thing happened to him at FGI and he set up his website. I had a good feeling about Brian from the start and the more I read his posts the more certain I became that this guy knew his stuff. I decided to follow all his advice and ask a ton of questions and my ball striking got a lot better but although pieces of the puzzle were coming together there were missing bits. I got the book read it a couple of times and did not like it at first. I am on my 17th reading now and have a better idea but nowhere near the understanding I want . The Ben Doyle video helped a lot. Then Yoda turned up and things really started to liven up. I liked his style and the generous way he was happy to share his information. When the Canton trio of Blake, Doyle and Manzella decided to put together a golf school I decided to leave England and go to the States for it. At some point I wanted to meet all 3 of these guys this was a one off opportunity that I could not miss and I was not disappointed. The school was fantastic for me and at the end of it for the first time ever I had a clear idea of what I should be doing. I did a lot of filming there to keep a record.. Watching Michael Finney swing gave me the visual image I needed. We have the same kind of body type. The coaching I got from Lynn, Brian and Ben was fantastic . Not only were they good coaches but I really felt that they wanted to help me. At no point did I feel I was being patronised and being seen as a meal ticket. I liked them all as people. Ted Fort was the real surprise . I did not really know much about him. He is a great coach and with Yoda behind him is destined for the top. I will be going to more schools for sure. As far as I am concerned TGM is where it is at and the more I learn the more certain I become. One thing that concerns me is that it is not being properly represented. It was only by chance I stumbled on TGM and if I started playing golf from scratch it would be unlikely that I would have stumbled on it. This has to be addressed. The fact that the original thread's question has been posed is a clear indication that something is wrong. I have put in a lot of effort in golf . Much of it wasted . Had I got the right info early I would have saved myself a lot of suffering. There are a lot of lost golfing souls out there that need sorting out. The TGM organisation must get it's act together otherwise the legacy of Homer Kelley's life's work will be short changed. .
...cheers!
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