The Golfing Machine. Geometric Golf. The Computer Age Approach to Golfing Perfection. 1982. Cloth.

by Homer Kelley

Book Overview

The Geometry of Golf has two aspects - the facts and the illusions, visually and sensory. When the facts are understood, the illusions not only cease to mislead but can be utilized. The Physics of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932890059
• ISBN13: 9780932890054
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Golfing Machine
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 6.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

The most complete and accurate golf instruction book EVER

This book is flat-out amazing. Tough read- yes. But click on the little picture of TGM (the yellow book) on the top of this page- this allows you to look into the book...read under the title "Simplicity". That's some of Homer's philosophy on how to approach this game...there is more in the real book. This is the absolute most complete golf book EVER. Golf is mostly physics. Hit a ball in the bush...the ball doesn't go in the trees because it doesn't like you- it goes in because it HAS TO! Everything in the universe plays by the same laws of physics...golf included. Homer knew this. Think about it. You can use this to your advantage... Homer Kelly studied the golf swing for 30 or so years before publishing TGM. It has everything you would ever need in it...the only variable as far as I'm concerned is whether or not you want to put it the time to sort through everything that has been HANDED to you... I think it IS a hard read...but the golf swing is not a simple thing and if one is confused, shouldn't be thought of as such (leave that to the pros!- these guys have been lucky enough to develop- Homer would say "stumble into"- good swings). And there are tons of forums on the internet that can really help in the process of understanding this book. It takes a while to be able to really really understand the book...but you will set off lightbulbs like you never have before. I do recommend seeing a qualified instructor though to aid you with this book and your golf....Homer felt the same way....this book wasn't really intended for the average guy...more for trained instructors. That's why it's not as easy as it could be to read...and besides, Homer wanted a book that an instructor could carry with him/herself...not a dictionary sized thing. In the book, Homer Kelly also talks about his opinions on most golf instruction. And he's right...golf is difficult to most people and typical instruction is confusing not because the instruction itself is complex, but because it is vague and incomplete. "After all, complexity is always more workable and comfortable than mystery is." -Homer Kelly Homer believed that golf is a game for thinkers. I couldn't agree more. If you're serious enough at improving at this sport I think you should attempt to look at it in a different way...as more of a learning experience...like martial arts or something. This is the problem with golf...it is not TAUGHT...people get quick fixes and then wallow in their own confusion. It's all about persistence, really. Again, this book has 95% of all the answers you would ever need. What a great thing. -Paul BTW- I recommend you check out anything from Brian Manzella, Chuck Evans, and Lynn Blake. They have great forums- this is the next best thing to seeing an Authorized Instructor of TGM (the way Homer wanted it to be BTW- he wanted people to use the book as a companion and reference, with the instructor's guidance).

Mr. Kelley is the Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton of golf

Words cannot express what this book has done for golf. Kelley's work is masterpiece. Golf instruction tends to be theory and opinion. There is absolutely no theory or opinion in the book. It is completely fact, it will remain that way as long as the basic laws of physics and geometry hold true. Just as there are thousands of philosophies and religons but only one science, there is also thousands of different golf books but only one Golfing Machine. It is not an easy read but that is because so much information is reduced to a 200 page handbook. It is basically golf swing engineering. All golf strokes have been divided into 24 components, three zones, 12 sections and three functions. Unfortunatly, just as the only people who can truly appreciate Einstein are those who have studied relativity, the only people who can appreciate the genious of Homer Kelley are the ones who have unlocked the information held within this book. Needless to say, I highly recommend it.

The best golf book ever written

Homer Kelley is the man when it comes to analyzing the golf swing. The people who have stated that this is a "why" book and not a "how" book are completely wrong. Have any of you bothered to read Chapter 10? In that chapter, Mr. Kelley describes how to put these theories and/or facts to use. Sure, this is a technical book, but if you're interested in improving your golf game this is the book for you. I am convinced that this is the way to swing a golf club. Top players using this technique include David Duval and Hal Sutton. There are others, I'm just not going to give them away. Sure, there are other good players using different techniques ("clubhead throwaway" is what Mr. Kelley calls these wrong techniques), but they are always swinging with the fear of hooking or slicing it. Mr. Kelley describes what muscles generate power and what muscles square the clubface. Generating power and squaring the clubface are the two most important things you need to know to play consistent golf. Mr. Kelley has it down perfectly. If you do nothing else today, at least buy this book!

The most complete book on how the golf swing works

This book describes how (and why) every aspect of the golf swing works. Admittedly, the book is not easy reading, but the content holds what is probably the most accurate information on the golf swing available. The readers of this book can be confident that what they are reading/learning is correct, and not just based on someones opinion, but rather, years of research into the physics/geometry behind the golf swing. There are other books that have taken this "scientific" approach to teaching the golf swing, but for me, this is the only book of it's kind. I'm not going to name-drop, but I know of two PGA players (one of whom has won a major) who, at one point, would carry this book around like a bible. Definitely a book worth reading if you are a true golf-nut.

A must for any golf library

As an Authorized Instructor of "The Golfing Machine" my opinions are slightly baised. However, until I read and learned the book I was going nowhere as a golf professional. My teaching "method" was based on whatever came out in the latest edition of Golf Digest. This is not a book of how but one of why. Mr Kelley spent 40 years of his life researching the golf swing and found things that the majority of teaching professionals have not found until recently using high tech gadgets. Mr Kelley did this with no video cameras, biomechanic aparatus, etc. He used just plain geometry, and physics. The most important part of the book deals with how to read and study it. Mr Kelley tells the reader exactly how to do this on roman numerial page X. I have yet to meet anyone that followed his instructions! So if you buy this book make sure that you do.