The Golfing Machine

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According to the same Sports Illustrated article from above, “Ben Doyle is one of golf’s most famous instructors and the most prominent teacher to have embraced The Golfing Machine. Doyle,70, teaches 364 days a year–his day off is Christmas–at the Golf Club at Quail Lodge in Carmel, Calif. He is a pro’s pro, having given lessons to half of the world’s top 50 instructors as well as to more than 25 PGA Tour players, including Elkington, Paul Azinger, Bernhard Langer, Johnny Miller, Curtis Strange and Grant Waite.” Final Thoughts on the Golfing Machine During that time we would often go together to a driving range across from the University of Washington. There he would hit balls and use me as a sounding board to critique him. He would often take the time just to observe people on the range hitting balls, making comments like “ten years from now that guy won’t be any better. All he needs is a little definitive information.” He was always analyzing people and working on his own swing as well. The pros at the range would point him out to people and say to their students, “See him? That’s how you should do it!” And he even worked on my swing which improved greatly under his instruction – another proof point that the ideas he was writing about were solid and applicable.

Step 4: Get working on your basic motion!!! From what I've noticed in my many years of playing golf, 99% of golfers have a faulty basic motion, therefore, I am suggesting this as a starting point. After you have mastered the basic motion, you can move on to building the rest of your golf swing! Applying The Golfing Machine to your Game In the book, he goes down the rabbit hole with terms like “Geometrically oriented liner force” and more to explain this concept. But for this article, we’ll keep it simple and say that 1 of 9 shots will occur based on path and club face at impact. Grip in the Golf Swing The golf ball will start to the RIGHT of the target (Push) if the club head comes into the impact zone from the inside (under the swing plane). I also tell my students that their scores and consistency will be totally correlated to the amount of play and practice they do. I can’t move mountains, and there are only a few non-practicing good players. Don’t try and beat the odds — take baby steps.And finally, understand that YOU CANNOT HIT UP ON A GOLF BALL. The ball is sitting on the ground so the clubhead has to be moving down and through impact. I think one of the best ways to think of this is to remember this club is “a wedge.” So, your simple objective is to wedge the club between the ball and the ground. The loft of the wedge WILL make the ball go up, and the bounce of the sole of the wedge will prevent the club from digging. Just like many of you, I’ve taken lessons and or listened to someone who I believed could help me better my ball striking. But like most golfers, I have sometimes tried accomplish more than I actually needed to at times. And I’ve been guilty of doing the same in my teaching as well. RECAP: So far, we understand that each golfer acts as a programmable machine that has 24 basic components to his/her golf swing, no matter how good/bad it is. When looking at each different golf swing, we can analyze EACH of these 24 components separately ( ideally through video analysis), and identify what types of variations (chapter 10) they have. On top of all that, there are laws of physics that explain to us the most efficient and effective way to swing a golf club! Homer uses chapter 2 to explain these factors (although this is by far the most confusing chapter of the book, and I highly recommend reading the first section of my instructional content to understand it better).

One name you will read about a lot in this article is Dr. Bob Rotella. In my opinion, he has the largest and best selection of literature in the golf industry. REMEMBER. Only hold onto the club as firmly as needed to keep it from falling out of your grip. Both left and right hand grip pressure must be light to allow for a sensitive feel and to prevent tension in your arms and torso. Chapter 5 - This is a short chapter that mainly discusses how important it is to learn how to manipulate the position of the golf club throughout the swing through the feel of various wrist/hand positions. For example, a golfer should never try to put the golf club in a perfect position at the top by the means of conscious manipulation, but rather learn what a perfect position at the top feels like through the process of "educating the hands." Set in the early 1900’s, the book is all about a blue-collar kid named Francis Ouimet who grew up across the street from The Country Club in Brookline. He learned how to play the game as a caddy and got to compete in the U.S Open which was played at his home course. With a 10-year-old caddie on his bag he went on to win the event in epic fashion!

Inside the book, you will learn about his practice routines, managing his golf game, short game tips and a lot more. Plus, he shares how the game has changed since 1962 and how you can play your best golf yet with tons of mental techniques. Some say my methods are a little weird, but honestly, I’m winning tournaments, playing great golf, and have risen to top 10 in the world. I don’t think people can refute my methods anymore.

Between Watson and Edwards, they won a total of eight majors together and had an unbreakable bond both on and off the course. The author tells the complete story of Edwards’ unbelievable life and gets him to open up about the secrets of the game that only a life-long caddie would know. Another emotionally charged but epic book! Teach your body the differences between them. After you have become comfortable with all three, you will be amazed at how many possibilities open up for you on the golf course; especially around the greens. Since 1969 Homer Kelley’s “The Golfing Machine” textbook has provided this fact-based approach to teaching the golf stroke. The text relies on science – simple geometry and basic physics – to provide a standard method of teaching golf that is consistent, reliable and most importantly, based on fact. Ben Hogan is one of the greatest golfers in the history of the game and believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80. Well, that is as long as you are patient and have a desire to learn.Hogan was known a range rat. He looked for answers in the dirt and is known to stay on the range for hours at a time.

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I have maturated in my teaching style over the years, and now espouse the fundamentals below as quoted from Homer Kelley’s great work “The Golfing Machine,” which allows instructors to teach over 446 quad-trillion swinging motions — one of which will work for someone. Glaze over Chapter 8 and Chapter 9, without looking too far into them. They are simply a way that Homer attempted to "classify" the golf swing, and are no more than more effective ways to communicate. Personally, I find that my swing position glossary is sufficient for communicating about the golf swing, which I have used throughout my instructional content. Read "Step One," and then supplement this with my post about the power accumulators, and when you reach 6-B-3-0-1, read my post on the flying wedges, followed by the all of chapter 4 (which further explains the wrist glossary from my post).