Yes indeed, great video of a great golfing gentleman. Mr. Hogan kept his swing simple and effective. Although much analysis has been done on various body parts and positions, remember you hold on to the club and control the club with your hands. The body just reacts in concert to those movements of the hands, just like in baseball or other sports with sticks. Mr. Hogan opened and closed the clubface with his hands which gave him superb control and timing over his swing. The best striker ever...
Hogan only played in the '53 British and won it. He also played the PGA only a few times, and won twice. Back in the those days the British & PGA ran during the same weeks. Hogan won 9 majors, finished second 6 times and was top 3 17 times. He did suffer some eyesight problems, and this hurt his putting. He refused to wear glasses on the course. No matter what Jack did, and what Tiger will do, Hogan IMO the best ever to play the game.
What a perfect choice for the music to this video. Ben Hogan was golf's Rocky. Rocky Marciano that is!! A hard scrabble, up from Palookaville champion for all time. The best to ever strike a golf ball. Past and future tense.
This appears to be footage of a match from Shell's Wonderful World of Golf... timeless, priceless footage of the wee Ice-mon in the latest stages of his career. Thank you for this compilation...
The most important thing of course happens after the swing is complete: he takes his right hand off the club and let's the club fall through the fingers of the left hand before gently clasping it again half way down the shaft....and then for a few seconds stands and watches his brief shooting star masterpiece. Totally at ease, finally, with his greatness.
Wow. Thanks for that account of the win. 7056yd is long for the 1960s, pretty long for now. 69 without the best putting is remarkable. Snead's round was nice too
I just love this, the music is perfect! Pitty because of money that he didn't play in the open more as a few more claret jugs would have been next to his great name...great clip!
Hogan only played in one Open Championship - Carnoustie in 1953. He won the championship, besting the amateur Frank Stranahan from the US and the Argentian Roberto De Vicenzo, later to become famous for finishing second in the Masters because he signed for a four on a hole that he really made three. Hogan's British Open victory impresses me the most. During practice rounds he found that he could reach the par 5 6th in two with a daring line off the tee that has to go OB in the air. Amazing.
What I can't get over is how much flatter his plane is than by most pro's on tour today. I wonder if this is unique to Hogan, or if this is a trend. Beautiful swing regardless, and one of my all-time favorites!
What makes Ben's swing so great is that it is all one motion. I have seen many a muscular guy attempt to hit a fairway and not be able to do so after several attempts, slice into the OB. I like his technique and with it I will be better.
The man was centripetal-ed out his mind.... If it had'nt been for the 6 years he lost to the war, and 2 seasons he lost due to his near death experience, Nickluas would'nt have been close. Stats like the ones listed below were the norm for Hogan. Balata balls, persimmon heads, bladed irons and greens no-where near as well manicured as those today. The guy was the da vinci of the golf swing, and reading some of the comments below, some of you guys don't even deserve to watch this work of art.
great swing. The greatist player that ever lived. I have the original ben hogan apex irons it is like lukin down at a butter knife i would love to strike the ball like the great 1
@pnggolfer9 A lot of people think he was flat on the backswing, he wasn't. What we are seeing is the most masterful blend of the backswing and downswing. Hogan took the club a bit short of parallel and boom he was into his downswing. Even his overswing was simply lag in his downswing.
People often say they would be willing to give this or that (organs, etc.) to have Hogan's swing. Well, it's worth trying to comprehend that Hogan quite literally gave his LIFE to have that swing. Few people have ever been nearly as dedicated at ANYTHING as he was at developing his golf swing.
The most fundamentally sound swing ever. There is virtually NO variance in plane or tempo in any one of those shots (at least the full shots). That's a solid, grooved swing! The Tour hasn't seen a shotmaker like Ben in many, many years.
Yes, that's the reason I have so much respect for the late great Ben Hogan...He went on to win 6 of 9 majors after an accident that should've left him in wheelchair at best...And he we have Mr. Woods who comes off of a 8 month break after knee surgery and is struggling to barely make a top ten finish. Whereas Mr. Hogan, I would assume never really fully recovered from his injuries, had managed to play with pain and played to very level that's not even matched today
I watched the shells wonderful world of golf match and Sazen's comment was kindof funny, "thats the best rond of Golf i have ever seen in my lifetime". haha, although it was probably the most effortless 68 i have ever seen, it seamed more like an average day for Hogan.
Yeah I agree, I tend to get a lil over hyped and i do believe everything I hear about the guy. But I believe he was as close to perfection anyone has ever come, he said that numerous times himself and he was a very humble person. Hogan was not the best early in his career, but I believe I grew into this legend for undeniable reasons.
In BH lessons there is a backswing plane (called the "pane of glass") and a downswing plane which angled slightly to right of the target line. However, if you see my post you can see the "pane of glass" as shown in the book is not what he swung on. He used the ball as a reference when swinging, but the actual geometry of the backswing plane was at less of an angle than illustrated.
Mike Bender (Zack's coach) who finished 10th on the top 50 teacher"s list admitted that he became a coach by hanging out one night with Mac (34th on the same list) and learn so much that he left the PGA tour and started teaching.Leadbetter and Harmon are great at marketing themselves,they hang out with best.Both are great communicator and can translate complicated concept into something simple to use.Mac I think is more like a mad scientist,always willing to go beyond actual concept.
The move that I marvel at is the way he is able to start his downswing a split second before he finishes his back swing, all in one fluid motion - for maximum torque and power. (I guess that's the reward for spending thousands of hours on the practice tee.)
@smoothswinging14 I hear you. After listening to this I jogged up a long flight of stairs and then swung a 2 iron and held a Hogan at Merion style finish for a half hour.
Dogman, that is one of the dumbest things anybody's ever said about Hogan and Woods. I can guarantee you Hogan has hit the ball onto the green in similarly difficult circumstances. The fact that Tiger did it with 6-iron (he also hits 6 from 175 sometimes) has more to do with modern equipment and the conditions on that specific shot than anything else. Hogan also had guys like Snead, Nelson, Hogan, Demaret, et al. to beat every week--and Tiger has nobody remotely at that level.
Hogan started his career with a draw/hook and he learned to play a fade. It was the turning point in his career. He believed you had to learn to play a fade to become a great golfer. He battled a hook that cost him early in his career. I play a draw, but still love Hogan's swing. It is perfect and reliable. Best ball striker ever.
It is with pleasure that UA-cam allows me to introduce the Discovery of "HOGAN'S CUBE!" After many years of research, this finding provides a Unified Geometric Model through which all angles of the swing can be viewed and interpreted with precision. I hope you enjoy Hogan's Cube as much as I've enjoyed the journey in studying Mr. Hogan, perhaps our finest example of a Unified Swing! ...Best In Golf, ..."DrDom"
@botterweckwb couldn't agree with you more, well said. If all that wasn't amazing enough, he also started out as a left handed player as a young boy, but due to a lack of left handed equipment, he changed to right handed. He eclipses all other players in my opinion.
i know the whippier shafts had a lot to do with his natural draw, but is Hogans swing considered flat? I find matt kuchar's position at the top is very similar to Hogan's! Just wondering because when you look at a guy like Luke Donald(another solid ball striker) his hands are much higher yet the guys on golf channel praise it as perfect!?!?! what position is ideal?
I think this is the Shell's Wonderful World broadcast from Champions in Houston, a match against Snead. In that match, if memory serves--I saw it on rebroadcast years later--I'm pretty sure Hogan hit every fairway and every green. He was 52.
Notice how every good and great golfer lean their upper body to the right on the down swing. Or left if you are left handed. I tried this and it does make a difference. Just make it a smooth swing.
Without a doubt the best golf swing and ball striker ever. I honestly believe that if he played in this era he would definetly be up there with tiger. In my opinion hogan had a better long game then tiger had but tiger's shortgame is immense.
@botterweckwb i don't get how you can be so good like him and not play a cut? i'm a 6 hdcp and can turn it whichever way i want but this is Ben Hogan how could he not control a cut?
wisgolfer101- there are many ways to swing a golf club. To your eye it appears wristy, to my eye it is masterful. Mr. Hogan had a powerful golf swing due to may reasons. One being that he used his strong/flexible wrists>it has been said by some that it reminds them of cracking a whip. A golf swing that would appear correct to you would be Scott Simpson, former US Open champ>he now plays on Champions Tour, another players swing you may appreciate is Scott Verplank. Pay no attention BKelly!
from all the books and things i read about hogan, he ususally fades his shots. however, looking at the video, most of his alignments are to the right. Is he drawing the ball?
You can easily say that Hogan may have had the flattest swing in all of golf but it is indeed one of the best swings in the history of the game. The car accident in 1949 simply hindered Hogan's progress to become a big stud, even though he was still a stud once he recovered from the accident, winning a few more majors and most notably, the 1950 US Open. He won a total of 9 majors, I think that if it wasn't for the accident, he'd be right up there between Jack and Tiger. Anyone else agree?
Hogan was great. I like his lower body action. He really creates a lot space to fire thru the ball. However I prefer to position the hands higher in the backswing.
The funny thing is that he takes all the wrists out of his golf swing. It's a one plane swing which is based on rotation of the core. He was the best ball striker that ever lived next to Moe Norman.
It's the 1965 match vs. Snead on Shell's WWoG. The DVD is available. Hogan hit every fairway and green in regulation. He had really mastered his swing, too bad he couldn't putt very well at this point of his career
this comment from Toski came across like a back-handed compliment in my opinion. i think if he wasn't interrupted by wartime and health troubles he'd be close to the best player ever without any added qualification like "self-taught" needed. footage like this show that he was perhaps the most in demand of the golf ball.
The interesting factor that people tend to forget when saying players from previous eras would be unbeatable with modern equipment is that it tends to actually deminish the truley great ball strikers advantage. Take Greg Norman, he was arguably the greatest every driver of the ball when using wooden heads and old would balls as he compressed it better than just about anyone while keeping the side spin low = long and straight. His advantage actually went when modern equipment came into play!
hogan's vision suffered from the crash - his left eye mainly, and with that he lost a bit of depth perception. it's truly amazing that he overcame poverty, and all his physical ailments to achieve all he did. at 1st the news was that he died in the crash, then he was dead from blood clots, then he survived but would never walk, etc. he just didn't know the word quit. only in america.
The way Hogan drove the ball, you could make a fairway as narrow as you wanted and he could still find it. The guy was way better than most people could imagine.
It'll be interesting to see how his game will be in 2009, the last report stated that he would play until the Masters..., that's a long time not to play up until April 09. Any that's in serious contention to win will be in Hawaii playing playing up until then.
I'm big on the Jim Hardy philosophy of one and two plane swings. Hogan and Trevino are both one planers. While I can't be sure about Trevino's hook, Just about every one planer battles the hook at some point in their development. The hook is the slice for the one planer. This is due to a plane that errs on the side of too shallow and too inside to out, while the two plane tends to get too steep and over the top.
Yeh, He won. Didn't putt very well but still shot a 69. Course was the Houston Country Club and was playing at 7056 yds. Hogan and Snead would have been around 53 years old. Gene Sarazan who was commentating at the match told Hogan afterwards, "Ben, that was the finest round of golf I've ever seen played in my lifetime." I think Snead shot a 71 or 72
I wish that sport science segment on ESPN would break down his swing. One of the few not-stupid segments they ever did was an analysis of how Tiger's swing was detrimental to his joint health because of the amount of torque it put his left knee through. I'd like to see them actually apply some relevant physics to Hogan's swing. Because really, who wouldn't want to understand it better? I'd kill to hit with the kind of accuracy and consistency that he did.
@jazzizjazz So true re over-the-top, and he himself was very much concerned with that. You probably know that he insisted the right kind of ground-up movement, with the lower body leading and shoulders not dominating the downswing (shoulders really follow the movement of the arms, or the intent to swing the arms forward, although I'm not sure he would've said so), caused a slight reorientation of the path from the inside and shallower, and he couldn't have been more right.
Every Fairway & Every Green ? Wow that really would've been something to see from a spectator's point of view. Also, it would've looked good on the PGA Tour website when they show the stats. To see 'Driving Accuracy - 100' and 'Greens In Reg - 100' Did Hogan beat Snead then ?
Agreed on everything positive and all praise for Hogan--but just for the record, there are various tournament courses where players routinely bite off OB. Like, for instance, #17 (the Road Hole) at St. Andrews.
Doesn't bring the club all the way back on his back swing? Check out "Ben Hogan Swing Montage" video for a viewing of his swing through his entire career.Not just all the way back, but waaay back.
Nicklaus had that build naturally, and he did very little weight training through the years. He was naturally muscular, though, and was a very good multi-sport athlete.
He did. Sarazen (the host that day) made the rather inflated comment that he thought it was the greatest round of golf he'd ever seen, which Hogan politely declined to scoff at (he could have, since he himself had played so many great rounds in major championships). But it _was_ a damn fine round of golf by a guy who then was in his early 50s--which mattered more then than it does now, especially with the car wreck that all but destroyed his body over a decade earlier.
Hmm...Snead might be in there too...won all those majors, won tournaments in six or seven different decades, was still shooting in the low 60s when he was in his 70s... And then there's Jones, of course, who wasn't just a sentimental favorite, but a big hitter, a great all-rounder, and one of the best on the mental side ever. But I get it...if you extend the short list too much, it's not a short list anymore.
Yes indeed, great video of a great golfing gentleman. Mr. Hogan kept his swing simple and effective. Although much analysis has been done on various body parts and positions, remember you hold on to the club and control the club with your hands. The body just reacts in concert to those movements of the hands, just like in baseball or other sports with sticks. Mr. Hogan opened and closed the clubface with his hands which gave him superb control and timing over his swing. The best striker ever...
Hogan only played in the '53 British and won it. He also played the PGA only a few times, and won twice. Back in the those days the British & PGA ran during the same weeks. Hogan won 9 majors, finished second 6 times and was top 3 17 times. He did suffer some eyesight problems, and this hurt his putting. He refused to wear glasses on the course. No matter what Jack did, and what Tiger will do, Hogan IMO the best ever to play the game.
I watch this vid extensively every single day. No joke. It is the single best teaching aid I have.
What a perfect choice for the music to this video. Ben Hogan was golf's Rocky. Rocky Marciano that is!! A hard scrabble, up from Palookaville champion for all time. The best to ever strike a golf ball. Past and future tense.
i have read five lessons and it helped my game, ben hogan was ahead of his time
2024 here, same!
This appears to be footage of a match from Shell's Wonderful World of Golf... timeless, priceless footage of the wee Ice-mon in the latest stages of his career. Thank you for this compilation...
Shells wonderful world of golf match between Hogan and Snead at Houston Country Club
The most important thing of course happens after the swing is complete: he takes his right hand off the club and let's the club fall through the fingers of the left hand before gently clasping it again half way down the shaft....and then for a few seconds stands and watches his brief shooting star masterpiece. Totally at ease, finally, with his greatness.
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47 seconds in that is as stylish as it will ever get on a golf course. can you imagine the ball flight he was looking at. holy sh%# what a legend
Great technician indeed and now a great teacher .Weird but very dedicated to the mechanics of the swing.
@thehurtboy4 I was thinking the same thing.Fowler does have that flat swing like Hogans with the same arm action and those quick hands through impact.
Great soundtrack for these Hogan video clips.
I read somewhere that he fought a hook later in his career. His 5 fundamentals are still very much relevant today.
No sorry he fought the hook earlier on in his career
18 fairways, 18 greens. Epic!!
Wow. Thanks for that account of the win. 7056yd is long for the 1960s, pretty long for now. 69 without the best putting is remarkable. Snead's round was nice too
pure class!! the best swing ever
That is just soooooo beautiful...
i watch this before every round of golf i play
@kimchee411
Have you seen some of the other Hogan vids out here, slow-mos and so forth? Some really great ones to vary up your observational practice.
beautiful swing for that year
I just love this, the music is perfect! Pitty because of money that he didn't play in the open more as a few more claret jugs would have been next to his great name...great clip!
Hogan only played in one Open Championship - Carnoustie in 1953. He won the championship, besting the amateur Frank Stranahan from the US and the Argentian Roberto De Vicenzo, later to become famous for finishing second in the Masters because he signed for a four on a hole that he really made three.
Hogan's British Open victory impresses me the most. During practice rounds he found that he could reach the par 5 6th in two with a daring line off the tee that has to go OB in the air. Amazing.
What I can't get over is how much flatter his plane is than by most pro's on tour today. I wonder if this is unique to Hogan, or if this is a trend. Beautiful swing regardless, and one of my all-time favorites!
A simply remarkable compendium!
@dhopper11 make sure your hands lead the clubhead. this will also help you create that hogan lag.
This video pumps me up.
What makes Ben's swing so great is that it is all one motion. I have seen many a muscular guy attempt to hit a fairway and not be able to do so after several attempts, slice into the OB. I like his technique and with it I will be better.
The man was centripetal-ed out his mind.... If it had'nt been for the 6 years he lost to the war, and 2 seasons he lost due to his near death experience, Nickluas would'nt have been close. Stats like the ones listed below were the norm for Hogan. Balata balls, persimmon heads, bladed irons and greens no-where near as well manicured as those today. The guy was the da vinci of the golf swing, and reading some of the comments below, some of you guys don't even deserve to watch this work of art.
great swing. The greatist player that ever lived. I have the original ben hogan apex irons it is like lukin down at a butter knife i would love to strike the ball like the great 1
I love how the ball shoots off the club low and hard. Like a torpedo!
@pnggolfer9 A lot of people think he was flat on the backswing, he wasn't. What we are seeing is the most masterful blend of the backswing and downswing. Hogan took the club a bit short of parallel and boom he was into his downswing. Even his overswing was simply lag in his downswing.
People often say they would be willing to give this or that (organs, etc.) to have Hogan's swing. Well, it's worth trying to comprehend that Hogan quite literally gave his LIFE to have that swing. Few people have ever been nearly as dedicated at ANYTHING as he was at developing his golf swing.
perfectly on plane every time :o
Nobody can´t beat his technique!!!
The most fundamentally sound swing ever. There is virtually NO variance in plane or tempo in any one of those shots (at least the full shots). That's a solid, grooved swing! The Tour hasn't seen a shotmaker like Ben in many, many years.
Yes, that's the reason I have so much respect for the late great Ben Hogan...He went on to win 6 of 9 majors after an accident that should've left him in wheelchair at best...And he we have Mr. Woods who comes off of a 8 month break after knee surgery and is struggling to barely make a top ten finish. Whereas Mr. Hogan, I would assume never really fully recovered from his injuries, had managed to play with pain and played to very level that's not even matched today
I watched the shells wonderful world of golf match and Sazen's comment was kindof funny, "thats the best rond of Golf i have ever seen in my lifetime". haha, although it was probably the most effortless 68 i have ever seen, it seamed more like an average day for Hogan.
Yeah I agree, I tend to get a lil over hyped and i do believe everything I hear about the guy. But I believe he was as close to perfection anyone has ever come, he said that numerous times himself and he was a very humble person. Hogan was not the best early in his career, but I believe I grew into this legend for undeniable reasons.
In BH lessons there is a backswing plane (called the "pane of glass") and a downswing plane which angled slightly to right of the target line.
However, if you see my post you can see the "pane of glass" as shown in the book is not what he swung on. He used the ball as a reference when swinging, but the actual geometry of the backswing plane was at less of an angle than illustrated.
Mike Bender (Zack's coach) who finished 10th on the top 50 teacher"s list admitted that he became a coach by hanging out one night with Mac (34th on the same list) and learn so much that he left the PGA tour and started teaching.Leadbetter and Harmon are great at marketing themselves,they hang out with best.Both are great communicator and can translate complicated concept into something simple to use.Mac I think is more like a mad scientist,always willing to go beyond actual concept.
Anyone know what course this is? That tee shot between trees at 1:35 looked pretty fun.
The move that I marvel at is the way he is able to start his downswing a split second before he finishes his back swing, all in one fluid motion - for maximum torque and power. (I guess that's the reward for spending thousands of hours on the practice tee.)
Yup, "Gonna Fly Now," by Bill Conti.
what kind of ball does ben hogan play? draw? fade? kinda looks like he plays both
Best swing of all time.
@smoothswinging14 I hear you. After listening to this I jogged up a long flight of stairs and then swung a 2 iron and held a Hogan at Merion style finish for a half hour.
Can anybody tell me what the music is in this video please post a message if you do! thanks
Dogman, that is one of the dumbest things anybody's ever said about Hogan and Woods. I can guarantee you Hogan has hit the ball onto the green in similarly difficult circumstances. The fact that Tiger did it with 6-iron (he also hits 6 from 175 sometimes) has more to do with modern equipment and the conditions on that specific shot than anything else. Hogan also had guys like Snead, Nelson, Hogan, Demaret, et al. to beat every week--and Tiger has nobody remotely at that level.
God I wish i were good at golf. Hogan make it look so easy.
Can anyone tell me the name of the music accompanying this video.
Hogan started his career with a draw/hook and he learned to play a fade. It was the turning point in his career. He believed you had to learn to play a fade to become a great golfer. He battled a hook that cost him early in his career. I play a draw, but still love Hogan's swing. It is perfect and reliable. Best ball striker ever.
It is with pleasure that UA-cam allows me to introduce the Discovery of "HOGAN'S CUBE!" After many years of research, this finding provides a Unified Geometric Model through which all angles of the swing can be viewed and interpreted with precision.
I hope you enjoy Hogan's Cube as much as I've enjoyed the journey in studying Mr. Hogan, perhaps our finest example of a Unified Swing! ...Best In Golf, ..."DrDom"
@botterweckwb couldn't agree with you more, well said.
If all that wasn't amazing enough, he also started out as a left handed player as a young boy, but due to a lack of left handed equipment, he changed to right handed. He eclipses all other players in my opinion.
love the music - i know james last did this cover too
Would you like to add to your teaching aid library?
why wont it let me pause at impact of the first DTL swing????????????????
i know the whippier shafts had a lot to do with his natural draw, but is Hogans swing considered flat? I find matt kuchar's position at the top is very similar to Hogan's! Just wondering because when you look at a guy like Luke Donald(another solid ball striker) his hands are much higher yet the guys on golf channel praise it as perfect!?!?! what position is ideal?
I think this is the Shell's Wonderful World broadcast from Champions in Houston, a match against Snead. In that match, if memory serves--I saw it on rebroadcast years later--I'm pretty sure Hogan hit every fairway and every green. He was 52.
Notice how every good and great golfer lean their upper body to the right on the down swing. Or left if you are left handed. I tried this and it does make a difference.
Just make it a smooth swing.
Without a doubt the best golf swing and ball striker ever. I honestly believe that if he played in this era he would definetly be up there with tiger. In my opinion hogan had a better long game then tiger had but tiger's shortgame is immense.
@botterweckwb i don't get how you can be so good like him and not play a cut? i'm a 6 hdcp and can turn it whichever way i want but this is Ben Hogan how could he not control a cut?
did they have coloured tv in 1964?
what song is that please
wisgolfer101- there are many ways to swing a golf club. To your eye it appears wristy, to my eye it is masterful. Mr. Hogan had a powerful golf swing due to may reasons. One being that he used his strong/flexible wrists>it has been said by some that it reminds them of cracking a whip. A golf swing that would appear correct to you would be Scott Simpson, former US Open champ>he now plays on Champions Tour, another players swing you may appreciate is Scott Verplank. Pay no attention BKelly!
from all the books and things i read about hogan, he ususally fades his shots. however, looking at the video, most of his alignments are to the right. Is he drawing the ball?
You can easily say that Hogan may have had the flattest swing in all of golf but it is indeed one of the best swings in the history of the game.
The car accident in 1949 simply hindered Hogan's progress to become a big stud, even though he was still a stud once he recovered from the accident, winning a few more majors and most notably, the 1950 US Open.
He won a total of 9 majors, I think that if it wasn't for the accident, he'd be right up there between Jack and Tiger. Anyone else agree?
ben hogan the greatest swing in the history of the game
Hogan was great. I like his lower body action. He really creates a lot space to fire thru the ball. However I prefer to position the hands higher in the backswing.
did hogan hit it far?
is his swing flat just want to kno. im 13 learning golf. 17 handicap
what's the name of the song?
The funny thing is that he takes all the wrists out of his golf swing. It's a one plane swing which is based on rotation of the core. He was the best ball striker that ever lived next to Moe Norman.
how many chapels???
I love this guy.
At :43 the club is below the original shaft angle, Hogan himself talked about a "flatter" action. Pick up "Five Lessons" and give it a whirl.
It's the 1965 match vs. Snead on Shell's WWoG. The DVD is available. Hogan hit every fairway and green in regulation. He had really mastered his swing, too bad he couldn't putt very well at this point of his career
this comment from Toski came across like a back-handed compliment in my opinion. i think if he wasn't interrupted by wartime and health troubles he'd be close to the best player ever without any added qualification like "self-taught" needed. footage like this show that he was perhaps the most in demand of the golf ball.
a video cannot be more epic. thumbs up if you agree.
The interesting factor that people tend to forget when saying players from previous eras would be unbeatable with modern equipment is that it tends to actually deminish the truley great ball strikers advantage. Take Greg Norman, he was arguably the greatest every driver of the ball when using wooden heads and old would balls as he compressed it better than just about anyone while keeping the side spin low = long and straight. His advantage actually went when modern equipment came into play!
hogan's vision suffered from the crash - his left eye mainly, and with that he lost a bit of depth perception.
it's truly amazing that he overcame poverty, and all his physical ailments to achieve all he did. at 1st the news was that he died in the crash, then he was dead from blood clots, then he survived but would never walk, etc. he just didn't know the word quit.
only in america.
The way Hogan drove the ball, you could make a fairway as narrow as you wanted and he could still find it. The guy was way better than most people could imagine.
It'll be interesting to see how his game will be in 2009, the last report stated that he would play until the Masters..., that's a long time not to play up until April 09. Any that's in serious contention to win will be in Hawaii playing playing up until then.
Asi se golpea una bola y no como ahora hacen. Bravo Hogan, tu eres unico.
I'm big on the Jim Hardy philosophy of one and two plane swings. Hogan and Trevino are both one planers. While I can't be sure about Trevino's hook, Just about every one planer battles the hook at some point in their development. The hook is the slice for the one planer. This is due to a plane that errs on the side of too shallow and too inside to out, while the two plane tends to get too steep and over the top.
@golfswagga23
Common, Hogan has a great swing buy have some class. Moe hit it great too.
Sweet swing. I wonder why more people don't use a more flat swing.
How sick is 1:12 driver swing!
The Beauty of Hogan's swing was he only took most of his irons Half way back.
Yet got full extension on the follow through.
God i wish i had Hogans swing
woundeful swing
Yeh, He won. Didn't putt very well but still shot a 69. Course was the Houston Country Club and was playing at 7056 yds. Hogan and Snead would have been around 53 years old. Gene Sarazan who was commentating at the match told Hogan afterwards, "Ben, that was the finest round of golf I've ever seen played in my lifetime." I think Snead shot a 71 or 72
I wish that sport science segment on ESPN would break down his swing. One of the few not-stupid segments they ever did was an analysis of how Tiger's swing was detrimental to his joint health because of the amount of torque it put his left knee through. I'd like to see them actually apply some relevant physics to Hogan's swing. Because really, who wouldn't want to understand it better? I'd kill to hit with the kind of accuracy and consistency that he did.
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So true re over-the-top, and he himself was very much concerned with that. You probably know that he insisted the right kind of ground-up movement, with the lower body leading and shoulders not dominating the downswing (shoulders really follow the movement of the arms, or the intent to swing the arms forward, although I'm not sure he would've said so), caused a slight reorientation of the path from the inside and shallower, and he couldn't have been more right.
Every Fairway & Every Green ? Wow that really would've been something to see from a spectator's point of view. Also, it would've looked good on the PGA Tour website when they show the stats. To see 'Driving Accuracy - 100' and 'Greens In Reg - 100'
Did Hogan beat Snead then ?
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Hogan was the best hands down IMO btw.
Hot DAMN, I love this video more every time I see it. Makes you wanna go out and hit balls.
Agreed on everything positive and all praise for Hogan--but just for the record, there are various tournament courses where players routinely bite off OB. Like, for instance, #17 (the Road Hole) at St. Andrews.
Doesn't bring the club all the way back on his back swing? Check out "Ben Hogan Swing Montage" video for a viewing of his swing through his entire career.Not just all the way back, but waaay back.
Nicklaus had that build naturally, and he did very little weight training through the years. He was naturally muscular, though, and was a very good multi-sport athlete.
He did. Sarazen (the host that day) made the rather inflated comment that he thought it was the greatest round of golf he'd ever seen, which Hogan politely declined to scoff at (he could have, since he himself had played so many great rounds in major championships). But it _was_ a damn fine round of golf by a guy who then was in his early 50s--which mattered more then than it does now, especially with the car wreck that all but destroyed his body over a decade earlier.
Hmm...Snead might be in there too...won all those majors, won tournaments in six or seven different decades, was still shooting in the low 60s when he was in his 70s...
And then there's Jones, of course, who wasn't just a sentimental favorite, but a big hitter, a great all-rounder, and one of the best on the mental side ever.
But I get it...if you extend the short list too much, it's not a short list anymore.