Funny guys. (just kidding, it wasnt funny though I do like the comraderie)
Bigger issue here.
I know of, I believe, 3-4 people that were 'working' on 7th edition revisions.
So........
Who's right? Who's wrong?
I’ll be blunt.
I have read HK for twenty-five years and have become familiar with his words and thoughts. I know his sarcasm when he doesn’t care about something and I know how he writes when he finds something amusing. You can read TGM twenty-five times without complete understanding but you can’t read HK twenty-five times without knowing something of his personality and immense effort and dedication. I know that he painfully chose his words.
TGM was revised six times by Homer Kelley within Eleven years, and by today; he may have updated and managed more than twenty revisions. No one can say, however textbooks are commonly updated and Homer did not fear changing his perspective or correcting himself and I think he rather enjoyed them.
TGM was the brainchild that he conceived, nurtured, clarified and purified. I have most of the original six editions and a side by side comparison clearly illustrates that Homer was developing and refining his concepts. Most of them are firmly implanted but some, to a lesser degree and remain in need of development.
I think that the “notes” should have been published. I think that the few corrections (references) needed to be made to the sixth edition, could have been made and re-published as the 7th with an appendix of Homers “notes” added for those of us who wish to peek into his concerns in hopes that some insight could lead us to future development.
I think a book explaining and clarifying key concepts should have been developed for the general golfing public and teaching professionals not familiar with the original work. Small doses, color photos, you know the drill. The word “Lever” and “Lag” are being used more often. It’s interesting to me how many TGM terms are being adopted. Yet does anyone beyond us understand their origin, meaning or purpose?
No matter how often or how many people exclaim the accuracy of the translations, I cannot agree with this decision. I don’t think that the 7th edition should have been published this way. There is too much “finality”.
Did Homer Kelley or his brainchild benefit through this effort? How much fog was lifted? For you? Why? Why? Why? Together, with the “LBG Platform”, a website provided by a gracious and acutely knowledgeable host, who, without question, is the World’s foremost expert on TGM, have an enormous opportunity to expand and build TGM knowledge with each other’s guidance. Simply expanding applications, such as Putting, Chipping, it’s endless. It’s the only book of its kind and yet every sport that uses a stick to hit something to make it move uses the same Laws and Principles. Interesting. Homer learned from them too and they can learn from Homer.
So much to do and so little time. This website could be here one-hundred years from now. Imagine fifty years from now, someone visits the site and reads the Collected Works of “Bucket”. Go ahead, laugh, they will. Does the 7th Edition mark the completion of the effort? No. Get down to the “Lab” and help me figure out my Extensor experiment! Homer would.
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