About ‘The Golfing Machine’

In 1939, an average Joe named Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116—a respectable score for a beginner, but frustrating for a science-minded perfectionist like Kelley. He did not play again for six months; then when he did, he carded a seventy-seven. Vexed, he grew increasingly obsessed and devoted the next thirty years to solving the science behind the perfect golf swing, self-publishing his findings in 1969 in a book titled The Golfing Machine. This revolutionary book explained golf, unlike every other book that merely described it.

Unfortunately, the majority of golfers dismissed the book because it was all but unreadable, too thick with physics and geometry and scientific dialect. The Golfing Machine seemed doomed to obscurity until visionary teacher Ben Doyle and superstar-in-the-making Bobby Clampett brought Kelley’s teachings to prominence, only to witness Clampett implode on golf’s most public stage. Validation finally came seventy years after Homer Kelley’s lifework began, and twenty-five years after his death, when a teenage prodigy named Morgan Pressel became the youngest golfer, male or female, ever to win a major championship. Morgan is coached by top 100 teacher and Golfing Machine GSEM Instructor Martin Hall.

The Golfing Machine is hailed by today’s top players and coaches as one of the best instructional publications written on the mechanics of the golf swing. The Golfing Machine written by Homer Kelly is based around, science, geometry and physics of the golf swing, however its text is extremely difficult to read.

I was fortunate to be introduced to the Golfing Machine through my continued studies and quest to understand more about the golf swing. I spent two weeks with the President of the Golfing Machine in London in 2009 and qualified as a GSEB Authorized Instructor shortly afterwards.
It was during my studies with the Golfing Machine that I understood in depth the golfing imperatives,

• The Flat left wrist
• Clubhead lag
• Straight plane line

These 3 golfing imperatives are common amongst the world’s best players and are the basis of my daily coaching.

Testimonials

"The Golfing Machine is one of the most important works in golf instruction of the 20th century. The quest by Homer Kelley to seek the truth has infiltrated down into many teaching philosophies...I know it has mine! “
David Leadbetter

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