Ben Hogan Amazing Grace….
Monday, May 31st, 2010 at
9:50 pm
“You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but… I was enjoying myself. I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I’m hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it’s a joy that very few people experience.”
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@emncaity I think you are referring to his comments early on in his career and wrote about in power golf. However 6 years after publishing that book his clubface was square to the arc below hip height- he referred to this as closed to open through impact. The evidence is out there it be seen in a swing sequence on historic golf photos and the footage of him at the masters.
@elnocho3
That’s weird. Hogan himself certainly perceived himself to be going open to square, and even believed he was releasing the club with his hands aggressively. It seems to me that about 98% of Hogan retrotheory these days is a revision of what the guy actually said and was trying to do.
its not that tiger doesn’t have full control thats not true, its that he cant turn his hips anymore because of his left knee, hogan always turn does hips real good it was one big part to his swing, when it comes to driver you need a bigger hip turn thats why when it comes to irons its not that big of a hip turn so tiger can control it
When men were men.
@mattyco1234 You would have a much more sound argument calling sergio garcia a better ball striker because his lag is amazing. Tiger’s ball striking stats are terrible.
@mattyco1234 Than why are you the only idiot to ever call Tiger the best ball striker.
@wbh73 Not possible…;-)
Is it my imagination or does the master actually fat one?The swing between 2.03 and 2.09? Looks to me as if he chunks it and doesnt quite finish his follow through.Bigger divot too.
You’re exactly right!
You’re right on base with that comment elnocho3. thanks for looking!
Agree, I could never call a player with that many diabolical drives going way left and right the greatest. Never liked his personality either. Hogan is the man.
Ben is the most graceful player.
nice and simple he kept it and always a forward leaning shaft at impact check out the best lessons on the tube at hitmanhawky and check my swing out looks like jack’s and ben’s in the hitting area check it out and thanks
@pcakesxl Great comment, closed to open is one of the many little clues hogan left. His club in his prime years was perfectly square to the arc below hip height. Meaning no aggressive hand release. People need to take a while to get their heads round this
Tiger is definitely one of, if not the best iron player on tour. He often finished top of the GIR list at the end of the year. So to call his ball striking average is just untrue. Ben Hogans swing and achievements speak for themselves, you don’t need to try and diminish what others have done in order to make your point. Hogan may well be the best ball striker of all time but you can still show respect to the great ball strikers of today.
this is how you swing. I love that guy. One of my biggest influences of how I approach the game.
I can only dream and aspire to one day golf as good and Ben Hogan. Ben is the golfer that all the great golfers of today looked up to, guys like Nicklaus, Palmer, Delay, just to name a few. I would put money that Hogan could easly give Tiger a run for his money had he been alive to be able to play him.
ok enough with tiger being the greatest ball striker ever. he is not even the best on tour. he is an average ball striker. below average off the tee. but makes up for it all with a great short game.
Tiger misses left and right. He doesn’t have full control of his swing like Hogan did.
you and mattyco1234 are b oth forgetting one person who is inbetween the potry of hogan and the volcano of tiger,he has won the most majors so far. jack nicklaus was a volcano and poetry combined
one can miss left with any swing path if the club is closed enough. Hogan discovered how to play “closed to open”. Furyk does this well, too. Its a lot to explain but the results create an inside to inside path with less club face rotation through impact. It actually eliminated the left shot that plagued Hogan and if
anything created a slight fade. I’ve read a lot of Jim Hardy and while some of it at first seems kind of kooky, I have really bought into his ideas.
yup he misses to the right with his tee shots 30% of the time. tiger has the best short game and is the best putter. that’s what makes him the best. it is not his ball striking.
they obviously haven’t seen hogan………..
When Tiger hits a tee shot, the metaphor that comes to my mind is that of a volcano, (which by the way, are extremely beautiful), and is meant as a compliment. I must say I don’t get your aggressive defense of Wood’s swing, which needs none.
When you go to a museum do you argue about the painters vs. the sculptors? Best to just enjoy.
sure he might get stuck, but going inside to inside you can miss left, tiger never misses left