There is no one out there, no matter what they tell you, who swings like Ben Hogan.
There is an entire cottage industry built around “swing like Ben Hogan,” and every one of the claims is either an outright fraud or a complete misunderstanding of how the man swung.
You’ve seen lots of face-on clips of the golf swing, but not as many rear views, I would wager.
I talk a good bit about Ben Hogan’s “Perfect Pivot” action, and here is how you can identify it when you view a golf swing from the rear angle.
There are 3 things that one requires to have a similar action.
I’ve said many times that Ben Hogan had the “Perfect Pivot” action when it comes to the actual pivot mechanics, but that one shouldn’t try to copy his actual swing.
Here is why – the way Hogan swung is a way he found able to repeat, but he also had to hit balls every day to maintain his precision.
It is absolutely unbelievable to me what I was seeing on YouTube before I took that week off blogging just to keep my sanity, and I’ve wondered before if we’re all just living in a really stupid simulation.
“Let’s just take all thought, reason and intelligence out of the golf swing world and see what happens…”
I love the rear face-on diagonal view when looking at a pivot action because it shows even more than a straight face-on or down the line views.
I’ve talked extensively about how I would take Jack Nicklaus’ adjusted setup from 1963 and pair it with Ben Hogan’s pivot action to create the optimal golf swing (I wouldn’t try to actually swing like Hogan because his particular swing model was rather unique), but there’s another pivot that I really like.
If you really want to see something that puts the Modern Golf Swing to shame, take a look at the golf swing of a man born in the 1800’s who had better technique than today’s players.
Francis Ouimet won the 1913 U.S. Open and his victory popularized golf with the common masses, whereas beforehand, it had been the game of the wealthy and privileged.
As I’ve said, I never really looked very hard at Tiger Woods’ golf swing other than to look for things to tell others not to do, but the more I look at the younger Tiger Woods, the more tragic his story becomes.
It’s because he was likely taught a Ben Hogan swing model, but a Modern Golf Swing version of it, which made it not Ben Hogan’s swing because of the one thing that made Hogan the great swinger that he was.
I’ve got a wild one here, folks. Fasten seatbelts.
This account has over 1 million followers and the clip I just watched has over 20K likes, and I don’t know what’s going on out there.
Here’s something that is so obvious that I feel silly even saying it – nearly 100% of people who play golf possess two working legs, and this is for those people – why would you swing on one leg when you have two of them?
I’ve already highlighted the insanity that is golf “instruction” on YouTube, and I ran across this fellow we’ve already discussed with his “to swing like Ben Hogan, don’t do anything Hogan was doing or saying” video, however…
I really don’t know what to say about this video, and I’ll admit that I only watched the first minute, because I couldn’t listen to it any longer – this fellow violates every sports principle, and when he started talking about swinging like a pitcher throws, I was out.
I have been going through my MCS swing videos, most particularly the EMCS series from 2017 and 2018, and I have to say, I can’t find much that has changed in my swing theory other than my own interpretation and execution of the mechanics.
I had actually taken the videos down from sale because I was unhappy with my own swings in the videos, but the content itself .
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