I have seen this gentleman’s YouTube page here and here in the past couple of weeks, and I believe from clicking on one of them that he’s a former high-level golfer trying to get back into golf shape to qualify for the Champions Tour.

I don’t know anything about his swing philosophy so I can’t and won’t vouch for anything else on his channel, other than the rant he delivers about Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons” book.

His rant essentially lays out why I keep insisting that you want to pivot like Hogan, but not try to swing like Ben Hogan.

I want to state before you watch that when he mention’s Hogan’s “weak grip,” he isn’t talking about the standard neutral grip of say Jack Nicklaus and the grip I recommend – he’s talking about Hogan’s super-weak grip, that you can see comparing his to the other greats of his era:

You’ll notice that Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus have that neutral grip, then there’s Hogan with a grip I can only describe as “Holy Moly Weak,” I mean the “V” points to between his left ear and shoulder!

Then you have Byron Nelson again with the standard neutral grip, so when I talk about a “standard or neutral-weak” grip, I’m talking about the three other than Hogan.

Much weaker than what you will see most places you look, although Rory McIlroy also has the standard or neutral-weak grip as well:

But here’s the clip, less than 7 minutes long, and I can’t find one thing in his rant to disagree with or criticize.

This is why I don’t try to teach carbon-copy swings for everyone as well – I said in a recent comment that no two golfers will ever look exactly alike when swinging because of differences in their height, weight, mobility, athletic ability and golfing aptitude.

If you have two legs and hips that are in working order, you can perform the same pivot action as anyone else.

If you have two arms and you swing holding the club with both hands, you will have the same swing bottom as anyone else.

If you have wrists that work more less the way they should, then you have an optimal way to grip the club.

No great swinger of any golf era impacts the ball without being in the “Leaning A” position.

So there are standards you can set for how to swing a club, but to take all of the things that a slim-built man with long arms, mobility issues (he could only play 5 to 6 events per year after his near-fatal wreck) and who had severe hooking issues did and try to build a golf swing around them is madness.

I’ve been saying that since I studied his swing in the “Ben Hogan Project” of 2014.

But an excellent rant from this gent.