[brianmontgomery2000]

Homer's work should stay untouched.
Would you add or subtract from a great work of art?

I think that its true value is in its use, not as a thing, so the work of art analogy doesn't work for me. (You can always buy an original edition or one of the subsequent additions to put on a bookshelf as a work of art.)

To me, this is a text book -- the more dogeared, worn, highlighted and noted the better in terms of absorbing the information. Just like a text book, we need new editions that change to match the latest findings and in the case of a lot of the discussion here, match the new media and ways of disseminating the knowledge inherent in a text book.

TGM is a system or methodology that helps me understand how to better strike a golf ball for me as an individual. That is its greatest advantage -- I can customize it to me and to a situation -- and perhaps its greatest curse -- there is a lot to understand and think about as opposed to other ways that advocate a single swing or pattern for hitting the golf ball.

The more ways we make this data available to individuals to understand in the way best for them, the more people that can take the information and turn it into knowledge that they themselves can apply on the golf course in each individual situation.