My 7th edition has color photographs of superb quality. Amazing how they have stood the test of time.
I also just love the enclosed DVD with all of Homers masters classes plus the audio.
I also love that I can download the master classes audio to my iPod from the Home Office site.
The only thing that bugs me is that I am just kidding.
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When James Durham recorded 94 at the Old Course at St Andrews in 1767, he set a course record that lasted 86 years. Golf: A curious sport whose object is to put a very small ball in a very small hole with implements ill desiged for the purpose - Sir Winston Churchill
Some updated pictures would probably do wonders for TGM. Maybe some copyrite laws prevent them from changing to more updated pictures.
Non- TGMers would probably be much more receptive to the TGM Book with some dynamic, real action pictures of all the motion parts of the Strokes, rather than the posed pictures that have served so well for all these years.
Maybe a separate insert of some kind could be done?
Great post lagster. To be perfectly honest, 4 years ago the stills really turned me away from the book, and the fact that I had trouble immediately comprehending it (which was not something I associated with a golf instruction book).
Some updated pictures would probably do wonders for TGM. Maybe some copyrite laws prevent them from changing to more updated pictures.
Non- TGMers would probably be much more receptive to the TGM Book with some dynamic, real action pictures of all the motion parts of the Strokes, rather than the posed pictures that have served so well for all these years.
Maybe a separate insert of some kind could be done?
This, of course, will come to pass some time in the future when the copywrite has expired and the book enters the public domain. Then we will have many, many editions featuring full color, glossy photos, accompanying dvds, chip implants that will position us correctly for the components of our choice, and maybe even a free floating , white-gloved bionic hand to wipe our butts for us when we poop.
Uh, let me add that this post is meant to be light hearted in intent.
Is it just me or does anyone else find the photos in the new 7th edition to be fuzzier and less clear than those in the 6th?
The new computer drawn diagrams such as those showing the Impact Interval (2-C) and The Flail (2-K) are much clearer though.
I'm surprised. I was talking with Doug Doo-shet-toe(sp?) in Beaverton some weeks ago and he told me that they were having some graphics specialists work on the photos to clean them up for the next edition. He might have been talking about the 8th edition though because he also said that they were going to have a team of engineers from MIT examine the text for mechanical correctness of description. He added "..it won't be Homer any more, sadly..".
I was in touch with him because I have converted the 6th edition to HTML for personal use only and have found that scanning the photos in the book only made them worse (as one might expect) and as I did not have the technical savvy to clean the pictures up myself, asked if there were any other source of these pictures.
Would be interesting to hear from someone who has a 1st edition as to whether the pictures are clearer.
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