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I have mentioned several times that Ben Hogan’s pivot is what I consider the “Perfect Pivot” action and I can attest personally to this.
The highest ball speed I can personally say I achieved with a regular golf club (I have hit over 190 mph ball speed but with a long drive club and long drive swing action), was with two things related to Ben Hogan, actually!
I have been focused so much on the full swing that I have neglected to illustrate how, in addition to starting your MCS Golf Swing journey with the short game (or adding to what you’ve learned already in one of the full swing videos), the mechanics that you implement for it will only strengthen the full swing.
I was re-watching some of the swings from my MCS Short Game video when something caught my eye on one of the lob shots, because the camera was set up at the perfect angle to catch my down the line shaft plane.
I never really contemplated it before, because when I released the “MCS – Short Game” video back in 2016, I had already produced and released several MCS Golf Swing video.
Re-watching “Short Game” however and receiving feedback from recent viewers, I was struck by the realization that it is the starting point for learning and performing the MCS swing motion.
One of the things I mentioned that had me having to put my video project aside is that I was contacted by journalist, writer and producer Josh Karp last month, and he inquired if I’d like to participate in a golf podcast pilot to discuss World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Weiskopf.
Josh is a writer who has written several books, one about golf called “Straight Down The Middle.”
It seems a contradiction to say, but both of the following are true:
If you wonder how they can both be true, here’s how it is – if you asked me, which of Jack’s or Hogan’s swings I would use if I had to replicate them exactly (or try to), I would pick Nicklaus, hands down.
I’m reaching the end of working on side issues that have delayed my completion of the upcoming MCS Golf Swing video, so I can confidently say that the video will completed and available next month.
Exactly when next month, I cannot promise, unfortunately – I just know that, unless something unanticipated arises, I’ll have the time to complete the reviewing and compilation of material from the previous videos and my swing archive and get this project done.
You will all know by now my repeating the phrase, “only in golf,” or “all other sports,” perhaps ad nauseam, when comparing golf (negatively) to other sports.
It is not a mark of distinction to be held apart from the others – in life, we call someone like that a black sheep or outcast, or any other such uncomplimentary terms.
I have the No. 1 reason why you should never watch YouTubers if you’re a Classic Golf Swinger, and it’s the only reason you really need.
That’s because of the same reason you shouldn’t try to swing exactly like Ben Hogan, even if you are a Classic Golf Swinger.
Emulate Hogan’s pivot, by all means – but leave the rest of his swing alone, because it will only come to grief due to his personal compensations and club manipulations, just as if you watch the YouTubers.
The reason I keep mentioning Ben Hogan in my tirades about YouTube instruction is because Ben Hogan’s swing model has become the pseudo-standard for Modern Golf Swing instruction.
Meaning, everyone thinks they are modeling Ben Hogan with their misguided teaching, but it’s so far from the actual Hogan as to be unrecognizable – and he would drop dead if he were still with us, I can assure you.
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.
WAX Golf 