Michael Jacobs
Super Moderator
Took on a project of writing a series of articles and thought I would share one of my excerpts:
Due to a lack of courage to update and fix the golfing science in The Golfing Machine, it is now just an obscure inaccurate old timer golf book on the shelf. Here are some brief reasons why:
Article Excerpt
The golf ball and club are in contact with one another for about a Half Millisecond during which they move together for less than 1 inch. This holds true for just about all clubs including slow speed shots.
There is nothing a golfer can do at this point to alter what is taking place during this interval. There are things that you can do early in the downswing to influence the club head’s delivery conditions but nothing a golfer can do during the impact interval.
The long held belief from Homer Kelley’s Golf Machine that a golfer can apply a Hinge Action during the impact interval {from impact to separation} is NOT ACCURATE
According to Kelley - “Hinge Actions describe and control the manipulation of the hands through the Impact Interval. This hand manipulation in turn controls the club face motions.”
Hinge Action is a major theme in his body of work and was discussed for hours upon hours in the Audio Tapes of his golf instructor training classes. This notion of altering the impact interval has done massive harm.
Is a heavy hit possible??
Can the club head resist the deceleration of impact?
NO, unfortunately Homer Kelley was wrong again
Homer Kelley went on to describe in detail in the Golf Machine that a golfer can provide a heavy hit into impact and resist the club head’s deceleration into impact. He states:
“Zero deceleration is what would give maximum ball speed for any and all approach speeds. Treat “heavy feel” of club head recovery as though it were all impact, even though the ball is actually long gone”
So a golfer trying to sustain lag through the impact interval & trying to impart a Hinge Action through the impact interval is NOT EVEN POSSIBLE and a huge collapse of the thesis of Homer Kelley’s Golfing Machine.
As a lifetime proud and loyal advocate of Golf Machine, it breaks my heart to admit its severe scientific flaws and its virtual uselessness in proper golf instruction.
There are countless more flaws that I will be sharing
Conservation of Angular Momentum - Basic & Acquired Motion - Gyroscopic Action
Hitting & Swinging - and much more
My prediction:
The book literalists will throw The Golfing Machine under the bus within a calendar year and relabel what they do and come up with their own version of authorizing instructors and their own system. This will leave The Golfing Machine book itself in virtual purgatory.
Due to a lack of courage to update and fix the golfing science in The Golfing Machine, it is now just an obscure inaccurate old timer golf book on the shelf. Here are some brief reasons why:
Article Excerpt
The golf ball and club are in contact with one another for about a Half Millisecond during which they move together for less than 1 inch. This holds true for just about all clubs including slow speed shots.
There is nothing a golfer can do at this point to alter what is taking place during this interval. There are things that you can do early in the downswing to influence the club head’s delivery conditions but nothing a golfer can do during the impact interval.
The long held belief from Homer Kelley’s Golf Machine that a golfer can apply a Hinge Action during the impact interval {from impact to separation} is NOT ACCURATE
According to Kelley - “Hinge Actions describe and control the manipulation of the hands through the Impact Interval. This hand manipulation in turn controls the club face motions.”
Hinge Action is a major theme in his body of work and was discussed for hours upon hours in the Audio Tapes of his golf instructor training classes. This notion of altering the impact interval has done massive harm.
Is a heavy hit possible??
Can the club head resist the deceleration of impact?
NO, unfortunately Homer Kelley was wrong again
Homer Kelley went on to describe in detail in the Golf Machine that a golfer can provide a heavy hit into impact and resist the club head’s deceleration into impact. He states:
“Zero deceleration is what would give maximum ball speed for any and all approach speeds. Treat “heavy feel” of club head recovery as though it were all impact, even though the ball is actually long gone”
So a golfer trying to sustain lag through the impact interval & trying to impart a Hinge Action through the impact interval is NOT EVEN POSSIBLE and a huge collapse of the thesis of Homer Kelley’s Golfing Machine.
As a lifetime proud and loyal advocate of Golf Machine, it breaks my heart to admit its severe scientific flaws and its virtual uselessness in proper golf instruction.
There are countless more flaws that I will be sharing
Conservation of Angular Momentum - Basic & Acquired Motion - Gyroscopic Action
Hitting & Swinging - and much more
My prediction:
The book literalists will throw The Golfing Machine under the bus within a calendar year and relabel what they do and come up with their own version of authorizing instructors and their own system. This will leave The Golfing Machine book itself in virtual purgatory.