Category Archives: Ben Hogan

I Finally Agree With Tiger Woods – Again (Don’t Watch YouTube)

I first agreed with Tiger Woods when he was asked who the G.O.A.T. was – his blunt and direct answer was, “Nicklaus – I’m four majors (then, now three) behind him.”

You have to understand that I don’t have any sort of hatred for TW – I simply abhor the way he has swung from when he was an amateur, because the Modern Golf Swing is garbage.

I consider him the greatest victim of all time (of bogus swing instruction), but at a certain point, he should have begun to look into a more mechanically-sound way of swinging.

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One Setup, One Swing – Nicklaus + Hogan = MCS Swing Video

Both Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan had a setup that was considered “the same for all clubs,” and that is the way you want to swing as well.

I’ve been saying forever now that you want to setup more like Nicklaus did (I don’t think he invented the setup, but as the G.O.A.T., we’ll just call it the “Nicklaus” setup), and that you want Hogan’s pivot action.

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Why I Studied Right & Left-Dominant Swings (And Why I Recommend Neutral)

The old-timers here will know very well of my forays into studying left and right-dominant swinging – it came about because I discovered back in 2022 that I was swinging left-dominant, and how it had caused several problems with consistency.

They’ll all remember as well my trip down the right-dominant rabbit hole, looking at Mike Dunaway’s swing model, which is the most powerful swing I’ve ever seen, mechanically.

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My Pivot Demo SHOWS The Shoulder-Knee Connection (Whole Body Swing)

If you were to ask me what my greatest breakthrough was in studying and analyzing golf swings (and building swing models), I would have to point to the day I figured out Ben Hogan’s pivot action.

Hogan himself stated that the proper pivot was a whole-body motion and didn’t separate the upper and lower bodies.

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A New Pivot Concept For The Same Old Pivot?

I am still finding nuggets in my previous swing videos to present in the upcoming video and, to be honest, it’s slow-going because there’s so much in those previous videos that the problem is not what to include, but what to leave out.

It is my goal to make this the simplest video I have ever made, because let’s face it – we’re talking about a golf swing, not rocket science.

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Jack Nicklaus Still Trashing The Modern Golf Swing

Thanks to WAX Golf denizen MC for forwarding the following golf article.

One of the things that has bothered me in the years I’ve been blogging on the golf swing has been the overwhelming silence from the Classic Golf Swing era greats (those still with us) on the Modern Golf Swing.

Sure, Jack Nicklaus trashed the idea of the X-Factor swing in his book “Golf My Way” back in 1974, but that’s 50 years ago.

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So Sick & Tired Of This “Swing Left” Nonsense

The video clip I just watched should be titled “How to complicate a golf swing beyond belief and ensure years of expensive lessons,” because that’s all I can see in it.

I know that everyone thinks that this is the way Ben Hogan swung, but once again, no one pays attention to what he was doing, and so you get people who have no business being golf swing instructors because what they’re teaching is ridiculous and harmful.

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Turn & Swipe Has No Leverage – The Weight Transfer Creates Effortless Leverage

I made a little swing gif. that easily shows how a mechanically-correct golf swing creates effortless leverage where the Modern Golf Swing fails miserably.

Swingers today are being taught the ridiculous reverse-pivot where the weight never really leaves the leading foot, followed by a “drop” with the arms and finally the turn and swipe action through the bottom.

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Tom Weiskopf – A Little Hogan, A Lot Of Nicklaus

It’s a pity Tom Weiskopf didn’t win more majors than the one U.S. Open that he bagged, because his golf swing has to be one of my top 5 to watch.

It was powerful and athletic, so mechanically-correct – and if you want to know how powerful, Jack Nicklaus said that the only golfer who could consistently out-drive him was Weiskopf.

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Why I Squat But Don’t Dump – The Weight Shift

The answer is very simple – I don’t actually “squat” in my swing, as I’ve said for a long time that this position is merely a snapshot in a down swing where the weight is transferring from the trailing to the leading side.