[Matt]

As far as the entire tour goes, I'd be willing to say most of the players have at least heard about the book in some form or another. Between Clampett, Doyle, O'Grady, etc, it'd be hard for them not to as least know that it's a golf instruction book.

That said, I know that Grant Waite is well aware of the book - he worked with Mac O'Grady in the mid-1990s, Ben Doyle in 2002-2003, and Chuck Evans in late 2003. When you talk to him about the golf stroke, he uses terms like Horizontal Hinging, Pressure Points, Flat Left Wrist, Straight Plane Line, Snap Release, Maximum Trigger Delay, etc. He's very attune to the terminology in the book. Unfortunately, he has moved on from the book due to it not improving his game. My take on it is that he received some faulty information and that certainly didn't help things.

He is now back in the O'Grady camp and for a number of reasons sees the book as "imcomplete" and as teaching "hook mechanics." Even so, he does apply parts of it to his game and certainly "talks the talk" when discussing it. He's as big of a "student of the game" as you will find on the tour. In my opinion, he sometimes overanalyzes things to the point where it paralyzes his game. He's so bent on hitting perfect shots that mishits will occasionally send him into a spiral for a few holes and cost him score-wise.

And when you miss the cut by a single shot and can go back and count four to five "giveaways" as he likes to call them...it's really too bad.