From Publishers Weekly
Few golf fans know the name Homer Kelley, writes Gummer, an acclaimed golf writer himself who admits even he didn’t know Kelley’s story until relatively recently. But Gummer aims to bring awareness to a man and the book he wrote that revolutionized the game of golf. Never a golfer himself, Kelley devoted his life to finding what made the perfect golf swing. Spending 30 years of his life in writing The Golfing Machine, Kelley analyzed the different components to a swing via geometry and physics, and insisted that there was no perfect solution—it was a system, not a method, and it was up to the golfer to find the proper components geared toward his own game. Even after his first book was finally publis [Read More...]
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May 1st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Homer Kelley was a Depression-era golfer whose first game was a 117 and his second a 77. Being of a slightly obsessive nature, Kelley spent the next couple of decades studying the physics behind the golf swing, and examining why he did so much better on that second game. His book on the subject, //The Golfing Machine//, was published in 1969 and has been controversial ever since. Proponents claim Kelley perfected the physics behind the perfect swing; detractors say that Kelley did not understand physics, nor did he ever actually explain anything clearly. Gummer doesn’t actually discuss much of Kelley’s system, nor try to explain it, but instead focuses on Kelley’s life and his pursuit of that perfect swing. This biography may be of interest to followers of Kelley’s system (obviously called The Golfing Machine) or die-hard golfers. But without some tie to the subject, there probably isn’t much here for the casual golfer.
May 1st, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I have been dabbling around the edges of TGM for some 25 years now, but I always fealt both intimidated and confused by the Book. this book helps first to understand who Homer Kelly was, why he did what he did and some basic structure to get a newbie started into the world of TGM.