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Re: The Best Player You've Never Seen.

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Sun, Nov 15 2009 6:55 AM

  You can apparently watch a video of him explaining his swing technique here.

• Soulcatcher 1,970 Posts

  Sun, Nov 15 2009 8:14 AM

  SweetiePie:

  I love a good fable. This one is very precious. It reminds me of a word that everyone uses and understands the meaning of..it is a word used in print and vocalised daily, and yet, it is not in any dictionary in the world...the word? guilible.

  Most fables are rooted in fact. (Look up Humpty Dumpty) if you wish.

  As for guilible, I have never seen this in print or heard anybody use( it doesn't mean it hasn't happened there are typos in almost every book I have ever read). I am assuming the root would be guile (clever and devious behavior).

  The word I have heard and read ( and possible misspelled by your sources) is gullible. Which is an easily found and  would be a close synonym to the inferred meaning of guilible. 

• BOFFMEN 337 Posts

  Sun, Nov 15 2009 9:25 AM

  SweetiePie:

   Number two is that Mr. Peper is somewhat respected in his trade, but his book was not written for the sake of accurate history, but his last chance to make a buck based upon a great deal of storytelling, or if you will, fish stories from the long dead list of people now unable to validate the truth of what he wrote.

   

   

  Since Peper isn’t here to defend himself, allow me.

   

  He is the author of fifteen previous books (at the time he wrote The Secret of Golf),

  including the bestselling Golf Courses of the PGA Tour (over 400,000 in print) and Cinderella Story, in collaboration with Bill Murray.

   

   For twenty years Peper wrote and produced the Masters Annual, the official chronicle of the Masters Tournament.

   

  His 1999 script for The Story of Golf, a two-hour documentary for PBS, brought him an Emmy nomination.

   

  Lastly, your inaccurate description of Yogi is just as wrong as the PGA was in banning him years ago.

   

• BOFFMEN 337 Posts

  Sun, Nov 15 2009 10:16 AM

  How ironic look what the PGA did yesterday at their annual meeting.   

   The Count Yogi  traveled 2 million miles, gave 7000 exhibitions, preaching his approach as superior to the traditional teachings of the PGA...(plus he was not viewed as Caucasian)...so don't look for his enshrinement anytime soon...lol

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Nov 24 2009 5:26 PM

  I decided to dig deeper regarding Count Yogi. I discovered that he changed his last name to Bates. As he grew in stature, he became known as Master. The two names stuck because of his light, delicate grip while being able to "grip it and rip it".

• BOFFMEN 337 Posts

  Sat, Dec 26 2009 9:30 AM

  Well SP thank-you for your "insult mixed with tawdry humor". I read many non-fiction books every year and this post was just about a piece inside of one I found interesting. Unlike you, I actually dug deeper by communicating via email with the following: George Peper (the Author) Rosemary Bryon (Membership Director Brentwood Country Club of Los Angeles) Gary Holaway (WGA/ESF Communications Director) WGA is the Western Golf Association. Brentwood is where the 1950 Western open was held. Along with researching actual newspaper articles from the years Count Yogi was playing and teaching. Mr. Peper wrote to me "All I can tell you is that I did my best to be accurate. In the case of Yogi, of course, there's a fair amount of hyperbole out there and it's sometimes hard to separate truth from fiction…Thanks for standing up for me!” If I find out anything in the future, that contradicts what has been written, I will honestly post back again. Peace.