Category Archives: Ben Hogan

Great Ben Hogan Face-On Look (The “Leaning A” Setup)

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The main reason I didn’t choose Ben Hogan’s swing for the MCS model is that he was a feel swinger who practiced endlessly, and so his setup would vary almost day to day – he would get the feel of how he was swinging on a particular day and go with it.

That’s not going to breed consistency – Hogan could do so because he hit balls every day, every single day, when he wasn’t actually playing.  Most of us can’t do that, and even if we could, we can simply avoid having to by building a consistent and repeatable setup over the ball.

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Another Mystery Solved By The Pivot – Hogan’s Flatter Plane

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Something I noticed instantly when I began to make practice back pivots, now that my shoulder is improving enough to do so, was the much flatter plane I have at the top compared to my previous, more typically Classic pivot style.

I began to look into it, wondering why I didn’t have much higher hands at the top the way I used to, a la Jack Nicklaus, but the flatter plane is actually a feature of the “Late Hogan” pivot action.

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I Made This Nicklaus-Hogan-Dunaway Gif. Nine Years Ago…

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Earlier today, I posted about how I view the optimal swing to consist of the Jack Nicklaus setup with Ben Hogan’s pivot, and I mentioned Mike Dunaway as well.

I couldn’t remember exactly what I had named this gif., so I had to go searching for it month by month in my media archives, remembering that I had made it when I was producing the “MCS – Drop The Hammer” video in early 2017.

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Nicklaus Setup w/Nicklaus Pivot Or Hogan Pivot? (Ball Speed)

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Now, the thing to remember with all of my waxing poetic about Ben Hogan’s pivot actions, especially what I call the “Late Hogan Pivot,” which is the one he used in 1953 (when he won 3 of 3 majors played), you simply can not exclude Jack Nicklaus from the conversation on swinging.

This is because the optimal setup closely mirrors the exact same setup that Jack Nicklaus recommended in his book “Golf My Way.”

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My Frozen Shoulder Syndrome – Both A Curse & A Blessing…

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Let me be frank – it has been extremely difficult, bordering on depressing this past 12 months.

I have been athletically active virtually my entire life since the age of around 7, and when this Frozen Shoulder Syndrome struck me out of the blue last March, I thought little of it at first.

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Where Mike Dunaway Meets The Late Hogan Pivot

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When I was working on the “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video, a good part of my time thinking about how to present the principles was how to explain the late Ben Hogan pivot action.

While I was going over the pivot action, I began to get a familiar feeling – “I’ve been here before,” I kept thinking, and I remembered what it was yesterday when answering colorful47’s question about hip turn vs hip rotation.

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I Solved The Hogan Pivot Mystery With The Pivot Drill

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I am working diligently on my shoulder rehabbing, because I am behind you – those of you who have downloaded the “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video are ahead of me.

Ahead in what?

In creating that perfect combination of a Jack Nicklaus-type grip with the MCS setup and Ben Hogan’s last silky pivot action that mesmerized the world when he won 3 majors in 1953.

Let’s go over the history of this evolution in the MCS Golf Swing.

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I Kept My Promise – The Hogan Pivot

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I will be taking a little time to restore my mental faculties after having struggled with this last video, but I will take advantage of my first post-video blog post to share something about which I’m proud.

I used to suspect, beginning years back, that really great swingers never divulged their secrets to their golf swings, especially one Ben Hogan.

I also promised myself that when I made a swing video, I would never hold back on something that I knew with regards to how I swung myself, or what I saw in another swinger’s mechanics.

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Swing Videos Are Too Long – I’m Getting Brutally To The Point

I have come to suspect that the main reason people struggle to learn anything from golf swing instructional videos is simply that they are too long.

I have been watching more videos, mine included, on the swing, and there is just too much talking and digression – I’m being brutally critical here, and I’m not saying that they aren’t any good, just that they are too long.

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Things Are Looking Better With The Video – Simplification

“How difficult should it be to learn (or to explain) a proper golf swing?”

I am refraining from giving constant updates with regards to the video project because things keep evolving in the process.

I think I’ve nailed a part of something (and because I have OCD, I keep re-visiting things), only to have a better way (I believe) to explain or show something, and revising begins anew.

In days past, I just put my head down and went through it all, and I invariably ended up hating all of my videos because I thought they could have been better.

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