Ben had a gang of 5 kids that wanted to beat him up. He agreed to fight them 1 at a time, and beat all 5! That is PROOF of his 70% "between the ears"! If it was you, you would have had to slink away or get beat up by the 5! Ben was WAY SMARTER under REAL PRESSURE!

Thank you so much for sharing this. Huge fan of Ben Hogan. Thinking, maybe we should say - there are no secrets in golf, just hard work and good thinking.

thanks for this. what initiates your downswing ?

George called it, and this is in The Golfing Machine as well, "loading" in fact the entire backswing he called loading. Just like a bullwhip action.

자세히 보니 두 사람은 기본적으로 클럽 다루는 법이 같음

Thank you so much read Emanuel de la Torre book and Earnest Jones and have been trying to replicate the swing. I will have to try it tomorrow but think you explained why I am looping my swing with the way you described the trowing a ball technique. Back swing up by your ear and not out away.

No ball I swing like a pro. Ball on the ground completely different swing.

I use heavy rubber lacrosse balls. Have to be pretty strong to do this without injuring yourself! I hit wedges up to 7 irons at 50-80% speed. Makes you have a solid grip and if the club face is open you will feel it!

I saw your swing from a few years back and knew instantly that you were Right handed even though you swing Lefty. It’s how you setup at address, with a high lead shoulder, and shoulder tilt, like Phil Mickelson. I’m Left Handed and play Lefty, but just thought it was interesting.

Begs the question. If it is so simple as hands up , arms down and the body responds , how you can write a whole book on the method ?

Listen to Mickey Wrights words. Similar to George Knudson.

Here's a thought I've had a long time. I think when Ben Hogan said "I have a secret, if I told you where to look, you'd know the secret". I think this could very well be his secret. Next time you're out just focus on where the club should strike: back of the ball for driver, blade of grass in front of the ball for irons. Just hold that absolute focus and swing. When I started to do that I realised this very well could be Hogan's actual secret. Try it. Let me know what you think.

OT but are you still using Joe Dante's 4 magic moves?

I'm glad to see someone else talk about this. I am very stiff in the spine and can't make anything like a 90 degree shoulder turn, but with this move I can. I first noticed Jack Nicklaus doing this, but I've also seen Tiger Woods and others do it.

Swing causes the mechanics

Hi Andrew. Roger Linch. Canterbury. Must be a connection as usually there is if it’s spelt with an i Interesting concept. Will look into this more

So flat wasnt the problem really?

This makes a lot of sense.

No sound??

I was fortunate to learn the game of golf in the 70's and 80's from Joe Dante as a kid at my golf club Rockaway River CC in NJ. He was an fantastic human being and golf pro! Thanks for this post!

Awesome Andrew 👌

It seems like his original swing was very right hand dominant but with low rotation of the arms that would cause a draw / hook. It is like he is chopping wood very hard. But, he adjusted it to get the best low flying push / cut that would always stay in the fairway. It would not run off at the end into the edge of the rough. I wonder what his fairways hit stat looked like.

After the 44 campaign, byron realized he was throwing away strokes so he charted every shot and vowed to save a stroke per round.i believe he won the first six tournaments in 1946 had enough to buy the ranch and retired. Always thought had he kept playing instead of retiring at 34 how many more majors he'd won and maybe ppl would revere byron like they do Hogan. Byron, ben and sam three golf greats . All had great swings.

Woow

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

never leave an eagle putt short lol

It would be beneficial, slow motion, front on, down the line swing. Thank you

Tried the 4 magic moves years ago. Think gonna try again with modified stack n tilt. I did the preset m a lil push forward n then back and let it fly. It looks non traditional but i felt doing it like that was better than incorporating the break on the back swing. I.had initially bought the book in pdf format and had audio book. It changed my game so why the heck did i move on to other swing thoughts. Gonna try again n see with a modified st

6:17 6:17

His swing in his 60’s is better than at 28

So true about the mental aspect’s significance…I used to lose my temper too easily and my score just spiralled up to the point where I wondered why I bothered playing at all. Once I got my swing stabilised through some good lessons, I grew to trust it more and relax which helped me keep cool when a poor shot occurred. At age 60 I broke 80 for the first time in my 45+ years of golf on New Year’s Eve and repeated the feat yesterday! It’s all in the mind! Next target is to break 75!

Thank you so much for this Andrew, love your stories and analysis, I've subscribed I have Harvey's little red (& black) books I love George Gankas' ideas got a number of Sam's books and my 2024 resolution is to read Ernest Jones and Manuel Della Torre's bodies of work. I'm 60 still want to play this game really well and you are certainly helping 😃!!

He took it more outside on the backswing in his later years no doubt to get more of a draw. As you said, he didn’t have the rotation of his younger days when he just rotated that left forearm on that very flat plane on his backswing and turned his ass off in the downswing. Thanks for this comparison. It’s the only one I’ve seen

Abdrew did you play the G.C in Barbados 🇧🇧 that Knudson shot his video 📹 at ?

Really like your explanation of creating powR, not using power 🤝

70% or more in the mind is true is true for any of the top athletes - loads of people with better technique than Jack Nicklaus but he had incredible levels of focus and concentration. There's a limit imposed bby poorer technique that is hard to get past, Andy Murray with Federers technique would have been awesome, for example.

Brilliant! 🙏🏻😎🙏🏻

That is some great footage of Ben Hogan.

Nice flops and feet.

He's clipping that 3 wood/metal off the turf with no divot. His head is so centered. Pure.

Be careful buying Top Flight golf balls in the US at a Golf Galaxy. I just bought (11.16.2023) two boxes, they are having a "2 boxes for $25" when normally 1 box will cost you $19.95 for Top Flight XL balls (15 balls per box). When I got home I noticed that one box did not have the usual round clear stickers closing each end. I compared the balls in the box without stickers to the box with stickers. The balls in the box without the stickers contain balls that look as if they are defect manufactured balls. They have clearly been sprayed with clearcoat in a defective manner as balls look when buying refurbished balls on the 2nd hand market. The balls that came in the box with the stickers are A+ balls that a buyer would expect to receive when buying new balls. So buyer beware. Make sure the boxes of balls that you buy have stickers at each end. And by stickers I mean the clear kind that have to be cut in order to open the box. I will be interested to see how the defective balls play. I would return the grade B/C balls but I already put my playing mark on them with a Sharpie. Unfortunately I opened the grade B/C balls first and just thought, "these balls are really poorly manufactured." It has been a while since I have purchased Top Flight balls and just assumed that their quality control had gone down hill. It was not until I opened the box with the tape on it that I realized, "hey, this box was taped shut and the other one was not. Maybe this means that there is something fishy going on." And sure enough when I inspected the balls in the taped box they look completely different.

superb!

Fred Couples and Snead both turn and lag so beautifully, and both followed their shots while still in their posture. So cool!!

Good find. Thank you. I've just spent half an hour, watching one of said peeps, encouraging me to spend a King's ransom on something you've illustrated in a few minutes. Thanks very much. I've had a few golf lessons, but this could be the best one.

It’s all about swinging the arms and the club in a circular clockwise motion, not a straight line directly at the ball