Almost every page of The Golfing Machine is dotted with cross referencing, pointing you to related chapters for further explanations. This was a deliberate attempt to keep the book as concise as possible; preventing it from becoming an unwieldy, thousand page encyclopaedia.
In Mr Kelley's own words: “In the interest of brevity, regardless of how often any point is mentioned, every effort has been made not to discuss any one aspect more than once.”(1)

This brevity can make The Golfing Machine a difficult read. To truly understand any passage from the book, you’d have to first read that passage, then read all cross referenced chapters within it, and finally read all instances where that passage is mentioned elsewhere in the book.

And it’s this last step that’s most tricky. Let’s say you’re studying chapter 3-F-7-C (‘Bobbing’ - raising and lowering the head during the swing). This topic doesn’t contain any cross referencing, so you’d be forgiven for thinking it isn’t mentioned anywhere else in the book. But that’s not the case. 3-F-7-C is referenced in chapters 2-D-1 (‘Major Directional Factors’) and 12-5-1 (’Basic Motion’). Of course you wouldn’t know that unless you pored through the entire book, logging every single cross reference from cover to cover.

Luckily for you, that’s exactly what I’ve done. To make your study of The Golfing Machine easier, I’ve created a searchable database from my personal notes. Simply type in a chapter from The Golfing Machine, and it will present you with a list of all the places you will find that chapter referenced.

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