The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golfs Greatest Swing

Think of the seat of the stick as being about two inches or so below your buttocks. Hogan advocates the use of a waggle not only because it helps you loosen your muscles, but also because it allows for your hands and arms to remember where to go for the first part of your backswing. The angle of the swing should feel like you are swinging under a slanting plane of glass.

The "glass" has a hole for your head while it rests on your shoulders and touches the ground on top of your ball. Also, the backswing should be slightly steeper than the downswing. At the top of your backswing, your back should be facing the target. And the arms begin their movement a split second before the shoulders begin to turn. As the hips begin to turn, they pull the left leg in to the right.

It unwinds the shoulder, the arms and the hands in that order, the correct order. It helps the swing so much it makes it almost automatic. At the top of his backswing, his left arm should be extended at the exact same angle to the ball as the glass. Ben believes the second part of the swing, the downswing, is initiated by the hips starting to turn. A baseball player throws a ball by transferring his weight and rotates his hips.

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Then his shoulders and arm follow after. Hogan thinks that the downswing is very similar to this action. The downswing is at a slightly shallower angle and therefore the arms and hands should come from the inside-out on the downswing. The club head reaches its maximum speed, not at impact, but right after, when both arms are fully extended.

The wrist bone is definitely raised. It points to the target and, at the moment the ball is contacted, it is out in front, nearer to the target than any part of the hand. The Five Lessons were initially released as a five-part series in Sports Illustrated magazine, beginning with the issue of March 11, Even today it continues to maintain a place at or near the top of the Amazon. Hogan is widely acknowledged to have been one of the finest ball strikers that ever played the game.

Hogan's ball striking has also been described as being of near miraculous caliber by other very knowledgeable observers such as Jack Nicklaus , who only saw him play some years after his prime. Nicklaus once responded to the question, "Is Tiger Woods the best ball striker you have ever seen? Further testimony to Hogan's and Moe Norman's status among top golfers is provided by Tiger Woods , who recently said that he wished to "own his golf swing" in the same way as Moe Norman and Hogan had.

Woods claimed that this pair were the only players ever to have "owned their swings", in that they had total control of it and, as a result, of the ball's flight. By most accounts, Ben Hogan was the best golfer of his era and still stands as one of the greatest of all time. Hogan rarely spoke during competition, and there are numerous anecdotes about Hogan's sparse but pithy remarks.

Hogan was also highly respected by fellow competitors for his superb course management skills. During his peak years, he rarely if ever attempted a shot in competition which he had not thoroughly honed in practice. Although his ball striking was perhaps the greatest ever, Hogan's putting skills are thought to have been below average, though he was capable of putting very well.

Solid and sometimes spectacular in his early and peak years, Hogan by his later years deteriorated to the point of being an often poor putter by professional standards, particularly on slow greens. The majority of his putting problems developed after his car accident, which nearly blinded his left eye and impaired his depth perception. Toward the end of his career, he often stood over the ball inordinately long before drawing his putter back. While he suffered from the " yips " in his later years, [15] Hogan was known as an effective putter from mid to short range on quick, U.

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Open style surfaces at times during his career. Ben Hogan won ten tournaments in alone, including the U. His 8-under par score in set a U. It was not broken until Tiger Woods shot under par in Jim Furyk also shot 8-under par in the , Rory McIlroy set the current record with under par in , which was matched by Brooks Koepka in Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth , a modern PGA Tour tournament venue, is also known as "Hogan's Alley" and may have the better claim to the nickname as he won its tour event five times. It was his home course after his retirement, and he was an active member of Colonial as well for many years.

The sixth hole at Carnoustie , a par five on which Hogan took a famously difficult line off the tee during each of his rounds in the Open Championship , has also recently been renamed Hogan's Alley. Prior to the accident, Hogan never truly captured the hearts of his galleries, despite being one of the best golfers of his time.

Perhaps this was due to his perceived cold and aloof on-course persona. But when Hogan shocked and amazed the golf world by returning to tournament golf only eleven months after his accident, and took second place in the Los Angeles Open after a playoff loss to Sam Snead , he was cheered on by ecstatic fans. However, he proved to his critics and to himself, especially that he could still win by completing his famous comeback five months later, defeating Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio in an hole playoff at Merion near Philadelphia to win his second U.

Hogan went on to achieve what is perhaps the greatest sporting accomplishment in history, limping to twelve more PGA Tour wins including six majors before retiring. In , Hogan entered just five events, but won three of them - the Masters , U. Open , and World Championship of Golf , and finished second and fourth in his other two starts.

The Ben Hogan Story. With that victory, Hogan became just the second player, after Gene Sarazen , to win all four of the modern major championships—the Masters, U. Hogan remains the only player to win the Masters, U. Open, and British Open in the same calendar year In , at age 54, Hogan shot a record 30 on the back nine at the Masters; the record stood until The record stood until , when it was broken by John Huston it has since been surpassed by nine others, including most recently Phil Mickelson 's under in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Hogan never competed on the Senior PGA Tour , as that circuit did not exist until he was in his late sixties. Many supporters of Hogan and some golf historians feel that his victory at the Hale America Open in should be counted as his fifth U. Open and 10th major championship , since the tournament was to be a substitute for the Open after its cancellation by the USGA. The Hale America Open was held in the same time slot and was run like the U.

Open with more than 1, entries, local qualifying at 69 sites and sectional qualifying at most major cities. The top players, who were not away fighting in World War II , participated and the largest purse of the year was awarded.

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Following his most successful season, Hogan started his golf club company in the fall of in Fort Worth. Production began in the summer of , with clubs targeted toward "the better player. In , he sold the company to American Machine and Foundry AMF , but stayed on as chairman of the board for several more years. Goodwin moved the company out of Fort Worth, and a union shop, to Virginia so it would be close to his home of operations for other AMF brands and, incidentally, a non-union shop in an effort to return the company to profitability.

Goodwin sold to Spalding in , closing the sale in January Spalding returned manufacturing to Hogan's Fort Worth, Texas roots before eventually including the company's assets in a bankruptcy sale of Spalding's Topflite division to Callaway in Callaway now owns the rights to the Ben Hogan brand. After over a half century and numerous ownership changes, the Ben Hogan line was discontinued by Callaway in Major championships are shown in bold.

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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Back Power Golf Ben Hogan 4. But Hogan's swing wasn't a natural gift. He spent years developing and refining it. In other words, Hogan built his spectacular swing, and now you can learn how he did it.

In The Complete Hogan, Jim McLean, one of America's most respected and sought-after golf instructors and a pioneer in using video to analyze the swing, looks at Hogan's swing in a way no one ever has before. Using more than one hundred still photos from three rare film clips of Hogan at his very best, in the late s before the terrible car accident that changed his game, McLean isolates every detail and explains every important motion of Hogan's entire golf swing. He covers important topics such as the grip, the waggle, the two-plane swing, the left hip action, lateral motion, rotation, and turning movements.

He also points out the importance of head position; cupping the left wrist; rotating the left arm; supination, or the bowing of the left wrist at impact; the long right arm; and a straight, balanced finish. McLean discusses Hogan's use of big grips and stiff shafts, and how, from analyzing his motion, we learn how the big muscles guide the swing. The hips and legs lead the shoulders in the downswing while the arms follow the motion of the body, and any conscious hand action or manipulation is eliminated.

Hogan's swing was like a symphony of movements, with an ideal sequential development of power. By viewing it closely, with the help of McLean's expert analysis, you will be able to study and practice Hogan's perfect blend of clubhead, clubshaft, hands, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, and head motion, and use them to develop an ideal model for your own swing. Adding to his own expertise, McLean relies on important commentary from some of Hogan's greatest admirers: As a young man, McLean had the privilege and pleasure of watching Hogan practice and compete on numerous occasions.

While nothing beats the thrill of seeing a legend in action, The Complete Hogan does something no other golfing guide can do: Using footage from three never-before-analyzed films of Hogan at his very best, Jim McLean breaks down the crucial motions of Hogan's entire golf swing and shows you how to integrate his mechanics into your own game. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

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The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf's Greatest Swing by Jim McLean

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