Thank you for all you are doing to shine the brightest light on Homer Kelley's The Golfing Machine. After some thirty years of study, I welcome your posts and know that the work itself can withstand relentless scientific scrutiny. Moreover, the Golf World has just now become empowered with a variety of scientific tools, e.g., launch monitors, that prove just how right Homer Kelley really was.
Now a question:
Do you have the Third Edition?
I ask this because, in the Third Edition, the first three (of six) Sample Stroke Patterns are relevant to your posts. Specifically, these three offer examples of One, Two and Three Accumulator Patterns, all of which employ the 1-2-3 Triple Barrel Stroke (Component #4) and the Right Arm Throw Trigger (Component #20) you earlier espoused.
With, I might add, an incongruence of Grip Type and Hinge Action with the later Basic Stroke Patterns of 12-1-0 and 12-2-0 in Editions 4-7. Specifically, in the Two Accumulator Pivot Stroke (12-2-0); the Strong Double Action Grip (10-2-D); its Angled Hinge Action (10-10-C); and the Dual Horizontal Hinge Action of 12-1-0 and 12-3-0.
Each of which is entirely consistent with Homer's original intent, i.e., "To present the solution as a Right Arm approach to the whole game" (1-F / Editions 1-3).
Anyway, this whole argument hangs on three or four sentences across the decades.
Lets take the time on this thread to get it right.
I'll do my part.
Yoda,
Thanks for bringing up Homer's original intent...."To present the solution as a Right Arm approach to the whole game". I believe that's what Tom Tomasello did in his instruction and presentation of The Golfing Machine." It totally makes sense...once you reduce variation in the system, quality goes up. I'm surprised the TGM community will not give Tommy any credit for the original intent...it's a damn shame. Is it because nobody made the connection???
DG
Last edited by Delaware Golf : 11-23-2008 at 11:23 PM.
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