[innercityteacher]

You are my first quote!

Pat

I have too much time to think lately since I can't yet swing a club.

I was running the long driving championship at my club yesterday, Very Blue Collar Muni. That's why I love it, real people who just want to play golf, no putting on a show of how important they are. A lot of "Caddy Yard" swings. We've all seen them, no real fancy training, built to shoot the lowest score they can using "feel." Nobody trained in the "Classic" golf swing.

I used to watch these swings thinking of how I could tear them apart and start over. How could I make them look like Ben Hogan. Now I have a better understanding of how some of these unusual motions work, and work well. I look at what I might change by going threough the list of components in my head. What might fit to improve the motion and the tools they already have?

It occurs to me it must have been these types of swings Mr. Kelley was building The Golfing Machine around. He spent his time at public ranges and muni courses developing his ideas around the common man. It sounds as though he didn't start really working with the pros until very late in his career.

Pictures of Diane looked classic, but they were posed and not really built around motion... that's what I am thinking anyway...

Sorry guys, no real point, I just love this stuff!

Kevin