The Golfing Machine

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To further solidify this statement, let’s just say it’s one of Bryson DeChambeau’s favorite books. He’s arguably the most “technical” golfer of any player on the PGA Tour, so it’s safe to say that it evaluates the swing at a very in-depth level. There is little excuse for forcing the average weekend golfer, who has some strong tendency or other, to adopt any procedure or stroke pattern that calls for the elimination of that tendency. It is far easier to develop a stroke pattern that properly compensates for it. Change the factors that are easily controlled to fit those that are difficult to change. There is no effort to classify any stroke pattern as best or worst, but there is undoubtedly a best “central” stroke pattern for each individual. During that time we would often go together to a driving range across from the University of Washington. There he would hit balls and use me as a sounding board to critique him. He would often take the time just to observe people on the range hitting balls, making comments like “ten years from now that guy won’t be any better. All he needs is a little definitive information.” He was always analyzing people and working on his own swing as well. The pros at the range would point him out to people and say to their students, “See him? That’s how you should do it!” And he even worked on my swing which improved greatly under his instruction – another proof point that the ideas he was writing about were solid and applicable. The Centrifugal Force Swing, uses Centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the body around a stable axis and multiplied by levers created by the golf club and the players hands and arms. The force is stored and released into the ball during impact as a linear thrust that propels the ball toward your target.

Set in the early 1900’s, the book is all about a blue-collar kid named Francis Ouimet who grew up across the street from The Country Club in Brookline. He learned how to play the game as a caddy and got to compete in the U.S Open which was played at his home course. With a 10-year-old caddie on his bag he went on to win the event in epic fashion! Golf in the Kingdom is a widely debated book but for golfers who do like it, it is known as classic. It takes a very different approach than most of the other ones on this list.

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following his first disastrous experience trying to play golf, Homer spent some time thinking about the relationships between the PHYSICS of striking a golf ball, the GEOMETRY of the golf swing, the ability of the human BODY and MIND to create a consistently dependable and repetitive golf swing motion. His second time playing the game was much more successful and Homer was hooked. He spent the next 24 years studying the game intensely, until he was ready to present his findings to the golfing world in the spring of 1963.

Since 1969 Homer Kelley’s “The Golfing Machine” textbook has provided this fact-based approach to teaching the golf stroke. The text relies on science – simple geometry and basic physics – to provide a standard method of teaching golf that is consistent, reliable and most importantly, based on fact. It will then go left if the club face has closed past square to the target line at ball separation. The Muscular Force Swing, uses the muscles of the right arm to generate force and deliver it to the ball through a set of levers created by the golf club and the players arms and hands, as the right arm unfolds. The force is stored and released into the ball during impact as a linear thrust that propels the ball toward your target. Despite being a very technical book, there are some pretty solid quotes as well. Here are some of my favorite:It takes a little time at first, but once you get used to it, it’s the most efficient way to return the clubhead to the ball. Think about it this way: ‘If you were to design a machine to swing a golf club, how would that machine do it?’ You wouldn’t program the machine to have a bunch of excess movement. You’d build it so it’s simple and repeatable. That’s what my swing is. When trying to understand this framework for understanding the golf swing, I think it is useful to identify which chapters serve which purpose. The 24 Components of a Golf Swing This simply states all of the different plane shifts that can happen during the golf swing. For example, Bryson Dechambeau uses a "zero" shift (10-7-A), while Jim Furyk uses the "reverse loop" shift (10-7-G).

The downswing should be much the same, with the shoulders, hands, and clubhead traveling at different speeds but remaining at the same RPM. When rhythm is off, it means the clubhead tries to overtake the hands, and the hands try to overtake the turning of the shoulders. This leads to a loss of power and control. (6)I love that his tone is conversational, his advice is easy to understand, and the insights can also help other parts of your life. As he said in the book, “Confidence is crucial to good golf. It is also simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself.”