Visual feast

[ubizmo]

There's something completely riveting about this video. Hogan's pre-shot routine never varies. He is so focused we can feel it 51 years later. Enjoy. YouTube - Ben Hogan Golf Swing

[JohnP]

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Haven't seen that film before - thanks for posting! - the thing I notice is at about 40 seconds, watch the club go back and up on one plane and then watch how it drops below that plane so as to be able to hit the ball from the inside, his hips have cleared beautifully and this I think allows him to attack the ball from the inside, his clubhead lag is also very much in evidence - exquisite timing in a nutshell.

It all looks so easy and free flowing - but of course its not!!

[bill reed]

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hi
i like how his right elbow hardly leave his right hip on the back swing of the clips of him chipping 3/4 of the way through. also cmay's if you watch half way through he uses a drive and just as he starts the swing he seems to pull the elbows together, he does not seem to do that on the short irons. but like you said it not like he said it in his book but he did say do as i say not as i do.
bill

[BrianW]

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And here's Bobby Jones, another poetry in motion and over 70 years ago.

[BrianW]

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I have a few minutes here. Will not get into the whole swing just as I did not with Hogan.

If Jones took a square stance like Hogan and maintain the left wrist angle all the way back to the right leg and then released up into the backswing it would not work.

Now we get into Joe Norwood.

Jones turned the right hip back, preset, which places the hands more towards the right leg or slightly behind the belly-button, then he is able to fire the club up like Hogan. This also keeps the head back longer.

W/o the left wrist hinge being maintained as long in the backswing I was helping someone with their pitching yesterday.

How many times have you been told to keep rotatation either from the hips or shoulders in the pitch shots?

Takes a lot of feel to learn rotation, and some will hit fat and then and all the other problems.

Pitch the Quarters:

Address the ball, turn the right hip back, place the club down and swing back to the backswing and drop the hands back down w/o any rotation of the hips, the left shoulder will not turn.

When you learn this, the right handed golfer will have the feeling of Pitching the Quarters out to a given location from the dominate right forearm. With the left shoulder not turning around in the downswing, the shots are straight.

Back to Jones:

Hips set which placed about 70% of the weight on the back leg and the narrow stance allowed the left knee to turn in as much as it did, in which many of you could learn in 5 minutes or less once you learn The Laws of the Hands.

Go make the little money now, later.

Brian, Job well done.

I have noticed how much Jones lifted his left heel and turned in his left knee in the backswing. For a lifetime amateur golfer and in the 1920's the boy did good.

[Neil18]

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Whilst we're all on the Hogan video trail:

YouTube - Ben Hogan Golf Swing=