@@michaeldellorso889 Norman's phenomenal skill as a ball-striker often overshadows his excellent playing record. He won 54 tournaments and set 33 course records. He shot three 59s and made 17 holes-in-one., hogan didn’t.
I'm just reading Five Lessons, great detail, outstanding illustrations that really bring the movement to life. The book is decades ahead of its time, i've read up to date books and magazines that don't come close. Hard to believe it was published in 1957.
I still remember when Tiger came out and was burning up the PGA tour and a tour reporter asked Jack "So is Tiger the best ball striker you have ever seen?"...without taking a breath Jack answered "Oh no that would be Ben Hogan".
@@brianyoung3 That is putting it mildly. Since you mentioned him I will tell an anecdote: Lee came off the 18th green at a tourney I don't recall and was grabbed for a quik post round on air interview and after the routine questions the TV guy asked Lee for one or two tips for the 15 handicappers. I don't recall what Lee's tips were but when he finished he started to turn and walk away and then turned back and wryly said "it also doesn't hurt to hit two or three hundred balls a day at the range"...as a 4 handicap that is the real answer right there.
@@harrybaulzack6934 Moe was more consistent than all of them with the possible exception of maybe Hogan I hate to say, but it's true. I saw rounds where Moe would say; "I'm going to put it in the divot I left this morning." Not only would he do it but, he'd hit the ball out of the divot and pick it clean as if it were on a tee. Most amazing thing I have ever seen. "The Five Fundamentals of Golf" was my golf bible, "Golf My Way" was second and third was: "The physics of the double pendulum."
pulling the hips first and hinging right elbow to body changed everything for me 7:42. Amateurs like me do not understand that he is not moving his upper extremities at all at that moment, he is only moving the hips. Thank you Ben Hogan for the five lessons.
this video is the best of all. mr hogan shows it all while in his prime. i've been studying mr hogan forever. i am 72 yrs. old. what i would have given to have this about 30 yrs. ago. thank you for this great post.
Hogan is my hero when it comes to swing. I have studied his swing and worked hard to copy it. I finally got it down last year (or as close as I am going to get) and I can just rip the ball now and my swing is so consistent. So nice not to worry about if you are going to hit it fat, thin or top it. I can get up there and just hammer the ball.
Watching this again after a long time. Just got back home from visiting my mum, 86yrs old, in Carnoustie. My home town. Don't live there anymore, but I am privileged to come from there knowing that Mr Hogan made a very lasting impression on Carnoustie. One of the holes named after him now, Hogan's Alley. He must have been like an Exocet missile with his tee shots. His swing is so natural and sublime. Youngsters should watch and take note of this, it is not muscular strength but it is a wound up spring being released at the perfect moment. Many happy memories for me remembered every time I watch Mr Hogan. I never saw him, I am only 56. But proud that he played on the council owned course that I grew up on.
Great to hear from you. Carnoustie would be hallowed ground for me. The Hogan connection, the land of my progenitors, the deep feeling I have for this game.
As I said in my earlier statement I got it as close as I could for a repeating swing. To get Hogans swing down it took about 5 years. It took me a long time to believe in the swing, so I would lay off a lot of shots. I finally decided to just try it. I couldn't believe how easy it was to just crush the ball.
I have watch this video hundreds of times and what catch's my eye are a couple of things. The feeling I get with hogan is that when goes to his back swing, the driver swing he picks his left heel up off the ground, goes to a certain point of his back swing then slams his left foot and left knee forward into the ground starting the transition then butt handles the club at impact, goes around to the left then up to a very high follow through... The other thing that got my eye when watching this over and over again is the reroute he makes in his back swing from the top to the downswing exactly at the same time he slams (transfers) the weigh into in left thigh, knee and foot to the ground, always staying into the inside of his right foot at impact and a little after, never spinning the right foot in any shots while curving his left wrist to compress the ball... That's so coool...I love this video and on his irons shots you can see how he compresses the ball at impact, with his whole body, not just with his hands or arms. The swing plane is a little confusing to me in his form, but I love watching him go through those movements. Thanks so much, Paul
Good points but there is a Number of things that made his swing one of most stable golf swing movements. Put your eye on the left foot is a good starting point and see how his left big toe puts up into his shoe during his golf swing. Then watch hies left foot does NOT turn out in the swing like so many others and its repeatable. See how his hips are stable base on his feet for they come through where other pros hips move in different directions, What people do not realize is his right foot does not move when the club is being taken back. WHY he keeps pressure on the ball of the rights foot so he can turn his hips fast. The inter thigh in both left and right legs are engaged to turn the hips because the left foot is pushing to the right and right being on the ball does not move.. So his FEET balance is far better then todays players for they do not move taking the club back. He guides the hip turning and shoulder rotation with pulling up on big toe of left foot base on muscle tension he formed between the right and left feet for hip Turing. Think hip turning. The other big POINT people miss in his right elbow placement in every swing he does. You do not see him jumping up during the swinging of the Driver why so many great players have jump swinging the. driver. Its about the right elbow is key point in the golf swing.
@@Qitrainer They jump up because it's a power source. Hogan does it as well. Just not as much. It's the squat turn and jump move. Phyics suggest that hitting up on the ball is one of the most efficient ways to hit it longer and straighter. Actually keeps the clubface pointed towards the target longer through and after impact. Don't really think it has anything to do with the right elbow.
Thank you for reply. Let me try to be clear, The differences from Ben Hogan and so many other golfers that jump before striking the ball.. Ben Comes came up after hitting the ball but others jump before hitting the ball. Look at Ben right elbow angle placement next to the body as his club comes into the ball and other players right elbow is away from the body as they jump before hitting the ball. Then look at Ben right foot heel and how he uses it in his swing vis the golfers that jump. If your right elbow is next the body you cannot be jumping as you strike the ball. I see them jumping before they hit the ball the right elbow is away from the body to almost straight. It is two different approaches to swing the driver. Jumping has its effect but what it limits is hand dynamic force by having less leg time. For as the Right arm becomes straight before hitting the ball limit wrist and hand leg time with the club. With the elbow close the the body the lag time is greater to having arm straight. Ben had greater leg time given his right elbow placement coming through and his right foot heel directional use for the hip action. Jumpers Straight arm to bring the club face to the ball for its just two difference approaches . The guys that jump lot of the time are tall over 6 feet and Ben Hogan was 5-8 I believe and yet his club head striking force was one of the best. His form of swing uses produces less effort to get the distances. Deciding what swing mechanics is a choice and his Book the 5 lessons the Best swing mechanic and I do not see jumping as part of his book. I do enjoy a good discussion on club swing mechanics. Have good day.
@@Qitrainer I like this conversation. I also noticed Hogan’s right upper arm is glued to his body on EVERY swing. And zero arm structure deviation from setup. It appears so simple.
Simple, efficient, effective...poetry in motion. No flying elbow is sacrificing distance for consistency and complete control, a very tasty recipe for success. Top 3 ball strikers ever.
please don't say you are referring to Nicklaus with the flying elbow stuff. lol if so, I'll remind you that Nicklaus was one of the straightest and longest drivers of the golf in history and also one of the most accurate iron players.
Nobody can swing identical to Mr. Hogan.However, his fundamentals are a very sound beginning in his book five easy lessons and from there you should build your own swing to fit your build and what your body can do and not do. Good luck from a 74 year old retired teacher of golf.
What a seamless motion. My eyes go to the position of the right elbow and the left foot through out the swing. That is what appears to allow everything else to just happen.
Golf PORN!!! Seriously, though, great compilation, and composition of it. The mixture of regular speed and slow motion is perfect for educational purposes but still has a flow that makes it fun to watch. Accompanying music is good, too. I'd love to "expand my consciousness" like Ben Hogan could. He's like 53 years old in this video.
Haha the great Ben Hogan would probably say what awful music . Besides that great compilation. Just shows what a great striker of the ball he was , when we're all studying his swing 20years after his death . A gentleman love the clips when he says , if you don't mind I'll hit a ball , that clips in there . Love watching him , too young to remember him sadly.
You are just as sick today as you were the first time we saw you swing a club Bennie! The hands, shoulders, hips, knees always at optimal impact position all while making it look effortless...
i don't know how people can hate this song. i watch this video a lot before matches or going to the driving range. i get the rhythm in my head then i always think free your mind and expand your conscious. i don't see why Hogan would have cared about that. I'm telling you this stuff works.
Been working hard on this swing lately. Finally found the sweet spot. It is way simpler than it looks. Had to be or he would have messed it up regularly and he never did. To be as brief as possible here it is: Lock right elbow to hip. Keep left arm perfectly straight(Acts as a Pry Bar). Front knee bends forward with left shoulder. Rotate the wrists as they pass the right elbow. His arrow in the quiver feeling will be felt as you rotate. Will feel like your are twisting the arrow in the quiver on the way up and you simply unwind pulling the arrow out on the way down by using your left hip. Keep your left arm near your right shoulder as long as possible. Right forearm is active on way up and right elbow on way down. This is a smooth, long swing. No jerking just turning. Head stays steady. That is it. If it doesn't feel smooth and like all you are doing is rotating around your right elbow you are doing it wrong. Trust me your swing will always feel way different than it looks.
Watch his head. Everything rotates around it while it is stationary. Watch his right elbow, back to the side and follows body rotation. Also the tilt of the shoulders through rotation and impact. Purest swing, like watching a ballet on the golf course.
I was obsessed watching the fixed position of his right elbow. (All the way through!) I failed to notice the head or the consistent tilt. Thanks for pointing that out!
Hogan was way ahead of his time when it came to swing mechanics and there are no teachers today who have picked up on it. An obscure guru has developed the best biokinetic explanation yet. Search for the h1e2x3 channel and his corresponding website.
Thanks, but since I've found the Mike Austin swing method there has been no turning back. h1e2x3 was the part of the process to reach where I am now. Will check out Reeves, though :)
husky7876 no he isn't, he was many years ago the best jnr in Europe and is one of the best coaches in golf and is bringing something new and backed up by thorough scientific research.. not fresh air and old wives tales..
husky7876 no he isn't, he was many years ago the best jnr in Europe and is one of the best coaches in golf and is bringing something new and backed up by thorough scientific research.. not fresh air and old wives tales..
Love the music! It's such a great juxtaposition against golf's genteel side and really drives home the point of what a badass Mr. Hogan was. Even though it's probably unlikely he would have enjoyed this music, it pairs well with what I imagine was the ferocious beast inside of his mind during competitions not to mention the insane amount of power he could spin up and unleash in each swing.
Yeah Ben was more Benny Goodman than Rage, but for a huge Hogan fan and old rocker, this is just awesome. This was a ball striking clinic against another great ball striker in Snead, and he put him to shame
As a further comment, Hogans rival the great Sam Snead, said he liked to hum to Waltz music as he swung the club. No golfer that ever lived could play humming to that background music. "THE WALTZ OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!" Sorry folks, I'm just having fun with an otherwise wonderful video. Music wise, it's the greatest argument for The Comeback of Silent Movies I've heard yet.
Such a simple swing. Look at the left arm/wrist at the top if you want to fix a slice. Agree with prior comment that Sergio resembles this with the exception of Sergio's uber extended lag being the main difference.
Ben was 53 yrs old in this video. His swing got shorter as he got older, as did the swings of Sam, Arnie and Jack and countless others, as will yours and mine when the inevitable calcification sets in the old vertebrae :)
You are right BUT did you know calcification doesn't necessarily have to happen ? Search it & if you do really care about it, what you will find will make you cry. So sad. Calcification causes blockage in the arteries & causes brain disease. Alzheimer, etc. Book "The Calcium lie" is one research on subject.
Mashie niblick maybe I'm the lucky one, at the age of 65 I still get a full swing and rotation, even the younger golfers on the course comment on how fluid and easy my swing looks.
Dang yawl my old buddy takes divots with his driver off the tee peg and gets great back spin turning 400 yard holes into par 6’s ,his launch angle could be a little acute ?
This video is excellent! It reminds me of the Al Geiberger Sybervision tape I watched many years ago, only a little better because of Hogan being the subject. BTW, this one is free unlike the Sybervision version.
I remember when Tiger came out and was winning everything and the golf world was in awe...a reporter asked Jack if Tiger was the best ball striker he had ever seen and without hesitation Jack shook his head and said Oh no that was Hogan, he was a much better ball striker than Tiger.
so much golf instruction sites Ben Hogan's swing and teachings, yet none of todays greatest players swing like Hogan. perhaps Ben Hogan was a great champion despite his swing.....
Well...the complex subtleties of Hogan's swing were lost on the overly simplistic, heuristically methodological, burgeoning golf instruction community that succeeded his era. Its way easier to teach someone to stand square to the ball on every club, for example, than it is to teach his more complex stance rotation concepts he showed us in 5 lessons. Players(swingers) are taught to have level forearms at address while his are open, for another example. These types of asymmetries bug golf pros (and their students). So they straighten out all the off angles and just say everything needs to be square and straight lol. Besides, there's more to great golf than having a biomechanically perfect golf swing 🍸👌😉
Damn, I wish my hips were not so fast. He has such a nice movement of his hips with his torso. My hips are ahead of my torso all the time, which I am pretty sure is the reason I have mishits more then I should
I like the music. Hogan might have liked Bob Wills' "Blues for Dixie" or Ray Price singing "Heartaches by the Number" better than this song but I think the modern sound with a timeless swing is really refreshing. Incidentally, if you start your forward press with the opening lick from "Gardenia Waltz" the ball sails beautifully and effortlessly almost every time. Pretty cool.
And for the record, disregard anything you have read saying otherwise - the left wrist layoff+the "elbow in" is a secondary swing characteristic... In other words, as his knees return to parallel and his left hip rotates toward the target, his chest/arm/shoulder position remains unchanged. it would be physically impossible to keep the club on plane while still keeping his arms in that same orientation to his chest if he didn't utilize both the left and right wrist joints, and right elbow Watch..
The greatest swing in golf history and a true American icon.
Moe Norman had the greatest swing ever , hogan was #2 ….. Moe was autistic and couldn’t compete in the public eye.
@@theliftexpert na, too short
@@michaeldellorso889 Norman's phenomenal skill as a ball-striker often overshadows his excellent playing record. He won 54 tournaments and set 33 course records. He shot three 59s and made 17 holes-in-one., hogan didn’t.
@@theliftexpert ya, Hogan only won eight of the eleven majors he played in at one point
Strange choice of music since everyone knows Ben loved his dubstep
Lmao
This is not remotely close dubstep.
@@nickdavis8881 you missed the joke
🤣
Phenomenal footage and muted the music out completely…
I’m watching this high af at 3 am and this music is playing in the background.... I thought I had another tab open
Lmao
Lmao
Right..? I can't even find this band when I Google it...
Yo lmfao I’m so glad I’m not the only one . I was just trippin and just so happen to look down and see your comment 😂
Music horrible
I'm just reading Five Lessons, great detail, outstanding illustrations that really bring the movement to life. The book is decades ahead of its time, i've read up to date books and magazines that don't come close. Hard to believe it was published in 1957.
I've been reading it of late and it really is a magnificent book. Very easily understood, succinct instruction that makes perfect sense.
I still remember when Tiger came out and was burning up the PGA tour and a tour reporter asked Jack "So is Tiger the best ball striker you have ever seen?"...without taking a breath Jack answered "Oh no that would be Ben Hogan".
Trevino wasn't bad either
@@brianyoung3 That is putting it mildly. Since you mentioned him I will tell an anecdote: Lee came off the 18th green at a tourney I don't recall and was grabbed for a quik post round on air interview and after the routine questions the TV guy asked Lee for one or two tips for the 15 handicappers. I don't recall what Lee's tips were but when he finished he started to turn and walk away and then turned back and wryly said "it also doesn't hurt to hit two or three hundred balls a day at the range"...as a 4 handicap that is the real answer right there.
@@brianyoung3 Trevino was better than tiger it’s hogan Trevino Byron Nelson and moe Norman that’s the gold standard for ball striking
@@harrybaulzack6934 Moe was more consistent than all of them with the possible exception of maybe Hogan I hate to say, but it's true. I saw rounds where Moe would say; "I'm going to put it in the divot I left this morning." Not only would he do it but, he'd hit the ball out of the divot and pick it clean as if it were on a tee. Most amazing thing I have ever seen. "The Five Fundamentals of Golf" was my golf bible, "Golf My Way" was second and third was: "The physics of the double pendulum."
The explosion on the turf after that ridiculously flat, laggy swing...effortless power it's just beautiful to watch over and over
pulling the hips first and hinging right elbow to body changed everything for me 7:42. Amateurs like me do not understand that he is not moving his upper extremities at all at that moment, he is only moving the hips.
Thank you Ben Hogan for the five lessons.
Course his upper body moves?
@@Addy-1636 on the initial down swing I meant
this video is the best of all. mr hogan shows it all while in his prime. i've been studying mr hogan forever. i am 72 yrs. old. what i would have given to have this about 30 yrs. ago. thank you for this great post.
Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan. Three of the most pleasing swings to watch.
Snead, Freddie, and Nicklaus aren't bad either.
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Hogan is my hero when it comes to swing. I have studied his swing and worked hard to copy it. I finally got it down last year (or as close as I am going to get) and I can just rip the ball now and my swing is so consistent. So nice not to worry about if you are going to hit it fat, thin or top it. I can get up there and just hammer the ball.
The music and the swing are from another world.
Watching this again after a long time. Just got back home from visiting my mum, 86yrs old, in Carnoustie. My home town. Don't live there anymore, but I am privileged to come from there knowing that Mr Hogan made a very lasting impression on Carnoustie. One of the holes named after him now, Hogan's Alley. He must have been like an Exocet missile with his tee shots. His swing is so natural and sublime. Youngsters should watch and take note of this, it is not muscular strength but it is a wound up spring being released at the perfect moment. Many happy memories for me remembered every time I watch Mr Hogan. I never saw him, I am only 56. But proud that he played on the council owned course that I grew up on.
I would agree, except that he had incredible muscular strength
No such thing as the wound up spring concept. Easily one of the biggest misnomers and misunderstood claims in golf teaching history. 🙂
Great to hear from you. Carnoustie would be hallowed ground for me. The Hogan connection, the land of my progenitors, the deep feeling I have for this game.
His swing so simple and smooth, his head is steady as a rock.
As I said in my earlier statement I got it as close as I could for a repeating swing. To get Hogans swing down it took about 5 years. It took me a long time to believe in the swing, so I would lay off a lot of shots. I finally decided to just try it. I couldn't believe how easy it was to just crush the ball.
Talk about an on-plane swing. Just awesome
Great video. Wish I could have had UA-cam when I was a high school kid trying to play better golf. A real treat to see the master at work.
Ditto. Same here
I have watch this video hundreds of times and what catch's my eye are a couple of things. The feeling I get with hogan is that when goes to his back swing, the driver swing he picks his left heel up off the ground, goes to a certain point of his back swing then slams his left foot and left knee forward into the ground starting the transition then butt handles the club at impact, goes around to the left then up to a very high follow through... The other thing that got my eye when watching this over and over again is the reroute he makes in his back swing from the top to the downswing exactly at the same time he slams (transfers) the weigh into in left thigh, knee and foot to the ground, always staying into the inside of his right foot at impact and a little after, never spinning the right foot in any shots while curving his left wrist to compress the ball... That's so coool...I love this video and on his irons shots you can see how he compresses the ball at impact, with his whole body, not just with his hands or arms. The swing plane is a little confusing to me in his form, but I love watching him go through those movements. Thanks so much, Paul
Paul - u might wanna check out myswingevolution - this guy, Chris gives a concise breakdown of Hogan swing!
Good points but there is a Number of things that made his swing one of most stable golf swing movements. Put your eye on the left foot is a good starting point and see how his left big toe puts up into his shoe during his golf swing. Then watch hies left foot does NOT turn out in the swing like so many others and its repeatable. See how his hips are stable base on his feet for they come through where other pros hips move in different directions, What people do not realize is his right foot does not move when the club is being taken back. WHY he keeps pressure on the ball of the rights foot so he can turn his hips fast. The inter thigh in both left and right legs are engaged to turn the hips because the left foot is pushing to the right and right being on the ball does not move.. So his FEET balance is far better then todays players for they do not move taking the club back. He guides the hip turning and shoulder rotation with pulling up on big toe of left foot base on muscle tension he formed between the right and left feet for hip Turing. Think hip turning. The other big POINT people miss in his right elbow placement in every swing he does. You do not see him jumping up during the swinging of the Driver why so many great players have jump swinging the. driver. Its about the right elbow is key point in the golf swing.
@@Qitrainer They jump up because it's a power source. Hogan does it as well. Just not as much. It's the squat turn and jump move. Phyics suggest that hitting up on the ball is one of the most efficient ways to hit it longer and straighter. Actually keeps the clubface pointed towards the target longer through and after impact. Don't really think it has anything to do with the right elbow.
Thank you for reply. Let me try to be clear, The differences from Ben Hogan and so many other golfers that jump before striking the ball.. Ben Comes came up after hitting the ball but others jump before hitting the ball. Look at Ben right elbow angle placement next to the body as his club comes into the ball and other players right elbow is away from the body as they jump before hitting the ball. Then look at Ben right foot heel and how he uses it in his swing vis the golfers that jump. If your right elbow is next the body you cannot be jumping as you strike the ball.
I see them jumping before they hit the ball the right elbow is away from the body to almost straight. It is two different approaches to swing the driver. Jumping has its effect but what it limits is hand dynamic force by having less leg time. For as the Right arm becomes straight before hitting the ball limit wrist and hand leg time with the club. With the elbow close the the body the lag time is greater to having arm straight.
Ben had greater leg time given his right elbow placement coming through and his right foot heel directional use for the hip action. Jumpers Straight arm to bring the club face to the ball for its just two difference approaches . The guys that jump lot of the time are tall over 6 feet and Ben Hogan was 5-8 I believe and yet his club head striking force was one of the best. His form of swing uses produces less effort to get the distances. Deciding what swing mechanics is a choice and his Book the 5 lessons the Best swing mechanic and I do not see jumping as part of his book. I do enjoy a good discussion on club swing mechanics. Have good day.
@@Qitrainer I like this conversation. I also noticed Hogan’s right upper arm is glued to his body on EVERY swing. And zero arm structure deviation from setup. It appears so simple.
i guess i'm not the only guy on acid at the golf course
Line up bro... I was first 🤦😂
Somewhere ben hogan is kicking his dog right now.
LMFAO
I bet you have a great microswing
Great swing, so compact and simple!
Think how good you had to be back then with that equipment lol.
Simple, efficient, effective...poetry in motion. No flying elbow is sacrificing distance for consistency and complete control, a very tasty recipe for success. Top 3 ball strikers ever.
and he’s not second or third…
please don't say you are referring to Nicklaus with the flying elbow stuff. lol if so, I'll remind you that Nicklaus was one of the straightest and longest drivers of the golf in history and also one of the most accurate iron players.
Love the music! Great choice!!!
Such a Cool video, bookmarded it to watch again.
Nobody can swing identical to Mr. Hogan.However, his fundamentals are a very sound beginning in his book five easy lessons and from there you should build your own swing to fit your build and what your body can do and not do. Good luck from a 74 year old retired teacher of golf.
Fantastic. Watching this is probably more helpful than 99 pct of golf classes u could ever take.
What a seamless motion. My eyes go to the position of the right elbow and the left foot through out the swing. That is what appears to allow everything else to just happen.
Golf PORN!!! Seriously, though, great compilation, and composition of it. The mixture of regular speed and slow motion is perfect for educational purposes but still has a flow that makes it fun to watch. Accompanying music is good, too. I'd love to "expand my consciousness" like Ben Hogan could. He's like 53 years old in this video.
Love seeing rare footage of the Master in action.
Thanks. Great footage.
I love the way he flicks the club back!
One of my favorite golfers what an amazing swing he had I got a set of Ben hogan apex clubs legend
Great man, great clubs
Haha the great Ben Hogan would probably say what awful music . Besides that great compilation. Just shows what a great striker of the ball he was , when we're all studying his swing 20years after his death . A gentleman love the clips when he says , if you don't mind I'll hit a ball , that clips in there . Love watching him , too young to remember him sadly.
I love how he says "If you don't mind...". He is amazing and extraordinary on so many levels.
Thanks again for the great video and sound track, so much better than the usual elevator muzak.
thanks for editing and posting this.
Great vid. Great music.
You are just as sick today as you were the first time we saw you swing a club Bennie! The hands, shoulders, hips, knees always at optimal impact position all while making it look effortless...
Absolute Gold: thank You.
i don't know how people can hate this song. i watch this video a lot before matches or going to the driving range. i get the rhythm in my head then i always think free your mind and expand your conscious. i don't see why Hogan would have cared about that. I'm telling you this stuff works.
This music is frickin awesome!
Great video. Great swing. Properly worn trousers, as well.
Master of ball striking.
SUPERB VIDEO ... THANK YOU
love the music strange epic trip
The music is dank as that swing.
I like to watch this while listening to The Smiths- "How Soon Is Now"
It works for me!!!
Jason Olds Or Oscillate Wildly 😀
Love the music. Hogan was the man!!!!!
Love the music. Love the video.
Ben Doesn't
I feel like I just toaked a big doobie and dropped into Alice in wonderland....
Lol more like psychedelics 😂
thank you and BTW love the music
Great music
I don't know how Ben was able to concentrate with that music playing.
Been working hard on this swing lately. Finally found the sweet spot.
It is way simpler than it looks. Had to be or he would have messed it up regularly and he never did.
To be as brief as possible here it is:
Lock right elbow to hip. Keep left arm perfectly straight(Acts as a Pry Bar). Front knee bends forward with left shoulder. Rotate the wrists as they pass the right elbow. His arrow in the quiver feeling will be felt as you rotate. Will feel like your are twisting the arrow in the quiver on the way up and you simply unwind pulling the arrow out on the way down by using your left hip. Keep your left arm near your right shoulder as long as possible. Right forearm is active on way up and right elbow on way down. This is a smooth, long swing. No jerking just turning. Head stays steady.
That is it.
If it doesn't feel smooth and like all you are doing is rotating around your right elbow you are doing it wrong. Trust me your swing will always feel way different than it looks.
That's it! Three full paragraphs! Wow!!!
I love the music it makes the video!!
Watch his head. Everything rotates around it while it is stationary. Watch his right elbow, back to the side and follows body rotation. Also the tilt of the shoulders through rotation and impact. Purest swing, like watching a ballet on the golf course.
I was obsessed watching the fixed position of his right elbow. (All the way through!) I failed to notice the head or the consistent tilt. Thanks for pointing that out!
Hogan was way ahead of his time when it came to swing mechanics and there are no teachers today who have picked up on it. An obscure guru has developed the best biokinetic explanation yet. Search for the h1e2x3 channel and his corresponding website.
you should see Reeves Weedon phase 7 swing, he is the only coach today who understands and has the research to back this up
Thanks, but since I've found the Mike Austin swing method there has been no turning back. h1e2x3 was the part of the process to reach where I am now. Will check out Reeves, though :)
David Williams
apparently not because reeves isn't the best golfer in the world
husky7876 no he isn't, he was many years ago the best jnr in Europe and is one of the best coaches in golf and is bringing something new and backed up by thorough scientific research.. not fresh air and old wives tales..
husky7876 no he isn't, he was many years ago the best jnr in Europe and is one of the best coaches in golf and is bringing something new and backed up by thorough scientific research.. not fresh air and old wives tales..
music was ok. I enjoyed the video and appreciate the effort.
Never heard of this guy he couldn’t have been that good
64 PGA Tour wins.
Love the music! It's such a great juxtaposition against golf's genteel side and really drives home the point of what a badass Mr. Hogan was. Even though it's probably unlikely he would have enjoyed this music, it pairs well with what I imagine was the ferocious beast inside of his mind during competitions not to mention the insane amount of power he could spin up and unleash in each swing.
Someone finally gets it. You Sir are a worldly scholar, genius, and all around good human. Keep thinking outside the box! We’ll said.
Agree. The music is awesome, and makes watching this great swing hypnotic!
Yeah Ben was more Benny Goodman than Rage, but for a huge Hogan fan and old rocker,
this is just awesome.
This was a ball striking clinic against another great ball striker in Snead, and he put him to shame
Please tell me what song and band this is I love it!
Seems like a song Ben would have liked.
Great freaking video!
Beautiful Hands poetry in motion Tena koe e te Rangatira "Ben Hogan"
As a further comment, Hogans rival the great Sam Snead, said he liked to hum to Waltz music as he swung the club. No golfer that ever lived could play humming to that background music. "THE WALTZ OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!" Sorry folks, I'm just having fun with an otherwise wonderful video. Music wise, it's the greatest argument for The Comeback of Silent Movies I've heard yet.
I just found my 1st tattoo 🙏❤️🙌
WOW. What a swing.
My 91 yr old dad said WTF is that MUSIC?? I said, come in here and check this out....he saw Ben and said...."that music just got better".
Totally trippy bro!
Great music, and I don't feel so bad with my short backswing, now that I've seen some of Bens short, bit controlled backswings...lol
Such a simple swing. Look at the left arm/wrist at the top if you want to fix a slice. Agree with prior comment that Sergio resembles this with the exception of Sergio's uber extended lag being the main difference.
Ben was 53 yrs old in this video. His swing got shorter as he got older, as did the swings of Sam, Arnie and Jack and countless others, as will yours and mine when the inevitable calcification sets in the old vertebrae :)
You are right BUT did you know calcification doesn't necessarily have to happen ? Search it & if you do really care about it, what you will find will make you cry. So sad. Calcification causes blockage in the arteries & causes brain disease. Alzheimer, etc. Book "The Calcium lie" is one research on subject.
I understand that yoga is good for this?
Mashie niblick
maybe I'm the lucky one, at the age of 65 I still get a full swing and rotation, even the younger golfers on the course comment on how fluid and easy my swing looks.
Poetry in motion!
Genius 🤘🏼
i actually like the music.
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100%
Right upper arm nearly glued to his side. Every swing it’s just going for a ride on his right side. Every single time.
the music is as fascinating as the swing imho
Oh and thanks for the Video.
Dang, he even took a divot with a fairway wood. It's amazing to see how masterful he was.
Dang yawl my old buddy takes divots with his driver off the tee peg and gets great back spin turning 400 yard holes into par 6’s ,his launch angle could be a little acute ?
This video is excellent! It reminds me of the Al Geiberger Sybervision tape I watched many years ago, only a little better because of Hogan being the subject. BTW, this one is free unlike the Sybervision version.
10:08 Ultimate Golf Nirvana
I remember when Tiger came out and was winning everything and the golf world was in awe...a reporter asked Jack if Tiger was the best ball striker he had ever seen and without hesitation Jack shook his head and said Oh no that was Hogan, he was a much better ball striker than Tiger.
Gary Player said the same.
Man, who doesn’t long for the days of the Woodstock Open?
the lag he creates at 10:37-10:40 is amazing!
it's a good video for those of us trying to develop a pivot and swing like ben hogan, i think i'm getting it, but turned the sound off.
53 years old here... Born in 1912.
so much golf instruction sites Ben Hogan's swing and teachings, yet none of todays greatest players swing like Hogan. perhaps Ben Hogan was a great champion despite his swing.....
Well...the complex subtleties of Hogan's swing were lost on the overly simplistic, heuristically methodological, burgeoning golf instruction community that succeeded his era. Its way easier to teach someone to stand square to the ball on every club, for example, than it is to teach his more complex stance rotation concepts he showed us in 5 lessons.
Players(swingers) are taught to have level forearms at address while his are open, for another example. These types of asymmetries bug golf pros (and their students). So they straighten out all the off angles and just say everything needs to be square and straight lol.
Besides, there's more to great golf than having a biomechanically perfect golf swing 🍸👌😉
Damn, I wish my hips were not so fast. He has such a nice movement of his hips with his torso. My hips are ahead of my torso all the time, which I am pretty sure is the reason I have mishits more then I should
Hogan listened to this music with his I-pod too.
I like the music. Hogan might have liked Bob Wills' "Blues for Dixie" or Ray Price singing "Heartaches by the Number" better than this song but I think the modern sound with a timeless swing is really refreshing. Incidentally, if you start your forward press with the opening lick from "Gardenia Waltz" the ball sails beautifully and effortlessly almost every time. Pretty cool.
Easy fix turn the volume off that what I did! Mr Hogan's swing was incredible!
exelente
great footage.. why the music?
Hogan would grind the competition down with his consistancy
And for the record, disregard anything you have read saying otherwise - the left wrist layoff+the "elbow in" is a secondary swing characteristic... In other words, as his knees return to parallel and his left hip rotates toward the target, his chest/arm/shoulder position remains unchanged. it would be physically impossible to keep the club on plane while still keeping his arms in that same orientation to his chest if he didn't utilize both the left and right wrist joints, and right elbow Watch..
Great Music! Into the Zone
Wow...👍💓
Epic
Give Ben today's clubs and he would kick everyone's ass
Love the Music I wish I know what it is
The shorter back swing is the key to accuracy.