TGM reminds me of the "disruptive technologies" of the '90s. Traditionalists wanted only 3 things from them..... and all 3 of them were to "just go away." The problem that wouldn't go away was that when the masses got their hands on something, they liked it. They even learned how to fix it. A reboot wasn't the seminal solution, but it worked.
Denial isn't a river in Egypt.... traditional instruction does not cut it, beyond being a co-conspiracy between instructor and student to empty pockets and pursue the golf swing, ad infinitum. The right person is going to have to stand up and say the Emporer is stark nekked. I'm sure that isn't the province of the PGA of America. The average golfer still shoots his 100. The USGA and R&A are proud of that. The nether reaches of the PGA of A see nothing wrong with it at all. As there hasn't been much supply of effective instruction, there hasn't been much demand for it either. That confounds me.
Instruction has been commoditized. There are only 2 successful business plans for a specific market. Either you differentiate yourself and charge a premium or you sell the same as everybody else, just cheaper. Is the PGA trying to keep their members poor?
So sits Homer Kelly at #6. And all the opportunity in the world.
Teach the teachers their chance for differentiation. There is a lttle pull through needed, too. Everybody call 3 instructors in your area and ask if they teach TGM. When they say no, ask them why they don't, beause it works. "Be the first on your block..."
The absence of the Icons of Instruction from the past few decades was a resounding crash. Just a hint that past instruction is in intellectual/practical bankruptcy.....
And Mr Kelly will take his rightful place.
Charlie