The Golfing Machine relies on science - plane geometry and physics - for its instruction base. We educate golf instructors using these principles as the backbone of our golf instruction. The premier text on golf science is Homer Kelley's The Golfing Machine which we are proud to use for our curriculum. Mr. Kelley defines G.O.L.F. as "Geometrically Oriented Linear Force". He instructs us to use alignments, rather than positions, to build better golf swings.

GLOSSARY

Use this Glossary to understand that the original mechanical application of a term is identical to its parallel golfing application and to see that there are no "Golf Laws" per se but that both Golf and Mechanics operate under the same identical set of Principles and Laws. There is ONLY one set. Subject your every uncertainty to drawing its mechanical parallel—The Golfing Machine is a true machine and must be treated like one to act like one. The "Examples" selected are seldom total parallels but a parallel is there.

ACCELERATION Example - toboggan ride.

Mechanical - A change in the product of Mass times Velocity.

Golf - The Pressure Points increasing the Hand Speed or resisting Clubhead

    Deceleration.

ADDRESS ROUTINE Example -  starting a car.

Mechanical -  Machine Set-Up. Adjusting and positioning a machine to take a

                  selected series of actions for a desired end result or product.

         Golf -  The process of establishing Component Alignments and Relationships

    as required for a selected Ball Response.

AIMING POINT Example - bullseye

Mechanical - A point at which Thrust is directed.

Golf - A simulated or compensating change in Ball Location to offset Travel

           Time characteristics of different Clubshaft lengths.

ANGULAR FORCE  Example -  wrecking ball.

        Mechanical -  The Kinetic Energy of Angular Momentum.

       Golf - The Kinelic Energy of the orbiting Clubhead.

 ANGULAR MOTION Example — Merry-Go-Round

        Mechanical - An object rotating around an axis.

       Golf - The Clubhead RPM as differentiated from MPH.

 ARC AND ANGLE OF APPROACH   Example -  Suez Canal (go around or  across).

       Mechanical - The circumference of a circle passing through any two points - or

                                 the straight line chord drawn through the same two points as

                                 viewed vertical­ly to a plane surface.

        Golf - The curved visual path of the orbiting Clubhead, visible on the ground,

                    through Impact Point and Low Point - or the straight line drawn through

                    the same two points.

 ARC OF ATTACK Example — Kingfisher's attack.

Mechanical - The circumference of a circle passing through any two points as

                   viewed from an angle to the plane surface.

Golf - The curved visual path of the orbiting Clubhead visible on the face of the

             Inclined Plane, passing through Impact Point and Low Point.

ASSOCIATED PLANES Example —floor and door.

Mechanical - The axis of a rotating motion must be mounted vertical to one of

                three possible planes — Horizontal, Vertical or Angled.

        Golf - The Flat Left Wrist must move vertical to one of three possible planes —

  Horizontal, Vertical or Angle — and its motion takes the name of that Plane

  with which it is so associated.