Lesson Breakthrough | Golf Monthly
Putting TGM in a nutshell pretty impossible in a sense, is what Sean Foley said once, he went on to say at a coaching seminar I was at that, if he could have a do-over, it would be for Homer Kelley to still be around to re-write his brilliant instruction in a more readable & indigestible style so more folks could really understand it. As what was in it, if, you could understand it, was truly remarkable.
Many of the tenets of TGM in one way or another underly pretty much all sound golf teaching, most of the best instructors around use all of the underlying principle's, most knowingly, some unknowingly.
It's about various key alignment & pressure points, the use of the 'levers' & rotational movement. Golf stroke uses mainly two basic elements, the Geometry of a 'circle' & the Physics of rotational forces.
The number one key alignment being the 'flat left wrist' (& the law of the fail). It's sort of alignment golf which does away in a way with mandatory positions, as positions per se can be executed exactly & still miss the ball.
The book itself is a very tough read, but has many very sound reasons in it, in how to make a good & very efficient swing motion. Feel in combination with sound technical mechanics.
I'm fortunate enough to have a signed copy of TGM hardcover 1st edition, signed by Ben Doyle USPGA, GSED he was the Pro at Carmel Valley CC, Ben who is the first authorized TGM PGA Pro instructor by Homer Kelley back a good ways in 1969 when Ben was at a club in Seattle.
Sadly, he lost his wife just couple years back, now well in his 80's & in a retirement home in San Fran to be near his daughter. He was for many years the Pro at Carmel name changed to The Golf Club at Quail Lodge (the one in Monterey. CA, not Hollow ...) His grandson 'Ben Doyle' is now the pro there, so 'full circle', kind of apt in a ways.
