Looks like Ben Hogan

Pure Hogan when he winning

Is it a forward push or just his rotation? Looks like it’s more rotation that is exaggerating the look of forward driving?

Moe won 55 tournaments in Canada

Love your videos Wayne. My opinion is learn to never hit it left. And swing as hard as you can! No disrespect to Wayne or any instructor. Instructors will help you get there. There is no perfect. I’m from Dallas, TX 53 years old. Hogan is who I idolized. The video Tiger vs Hogan is incredible Wayne! The best teacher I ever saw is Brian Wilson a former caddy and PGA tour player. I am steep on the way down. He is the only teacher who said plenty of good players even tour players do it. I’ve wasted so much time trying to be perfect. I can’t shallow it out!! And you don’t have too to shoot under par.

The key insight that many professional golfers use - but rarely discuss - is the importance of maintaining your spine angle through impact. When dip down and stay in your posture (keeping that downward spine tilt), your body naturally figures out how to deliver the club to the ball efficiently, creating that coveted lag in your swing. When first practicing this, you'll likely encounter two common issues: 1. Standing up too early (known as "early extension"), which causes you to cast the club 2. Staying down without the correct body rotation and hitting the ground before the ball The breakthrough comes through repetition. With enough practice swings, your body will naturally discover the perfect position to both stay down and make clean contact. This is where real power in the golf swing comes from. Once you've mastered this fundamental movement, you can then fine-tune the clubface control through wrist angles and forearm rotation to dial in your accuracy. Makes you wonder if all pros know this and don't share:)

wayne love the content but upgrade the quality

Got to see him practice at Lake Nona a few times. He adopted a swing that was relevant for the time but with the onset of titanium drivers and golf balls that fly further, it just didn't translate in the Tiger era. Hogan would have had the same problem.

Carl Lohren fundamentals are in play with Trevino...Hogan, Snead, Nicklaus, etc. (Right side is delayed)

To who created this video just a question wouldnt the use of the left heel allow more balance allow more coiling and on way down to inpact create more force speed etc these points correct are they ?

Watched him on the range at a tournament and found his tempo and trajectory to be as good as my naked eye can see. Aesthetically I’d put him in the rarified category of Els and Elk

I think that the restriction came from the idea that the body should be twisted like a spring with as much separation as possible between the upper and lower body. This idea was a misunderstanding of how the body works. Yes, there is separation, but pushing that to its limit does NOT create a spring effect; it merely damages the discs in the lumbar spine. The golfers you show film of all demonstrate a fully athletic motion involving the whole body. The notion that a swing with the fewest possible number of moving parts was also wrong. Freedom of movement using gravity and a whip-like slingshot effect is far easier on the body than any kind of tension. That is what I think anyway.

Looks like his head dropped 8- 10 inches.

Great analysis, great swing, lovely guy.

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE, WOODS is the ACTUAL GOAT!!!!!!!!!

Gary's hairstyle is a big hit these last few years, with a few modern tweaks

How in the world does this video only have 116 likes?

Commentators on TV, like Miller, pointing out "swing flaws" of golfers that made it to the PGA Tour is idiotic. Jim Furyk can shoot 58 on Tour and stay on Tour for over 20 years, but there will always be a Johny Miller type doofus on TV that knocks his swing.

The video of Bobby at the right was probably late 1930s he was very long with power clubs and could hit steel with his swing as well as hickory, Bobby designed the first set of numbered clubs for Spalding. Contemporary golfers have witnessed him hitting over 300 with a ball that was obviously short. He went months without touching a club and usually won the next tournament he entered. Retired at age 28. He was a lifelong amateur which meant he couldn't accept winning money. It's why I get bent when ppl say a pers hits like an amateur.

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Thank you so much for this!

That “old school” action is really all about releasing the arms to create speed at the hands. As long as you don’t work too much into a reverse C it’s a pretty low stress way to generate power.

The minute people start drawing lines all over some footage I tune out. It’s been done so many times by so many instructors and it’s just not something you can take to the course.

The feel is better than the real.

Have a book about the Babe--- just like Bo Jackson; multiple athletic skills :) Thanks for the share.

I think you are missing the single most important dynamic of her swing and that is the way she takes dramatic steps to allow her whole body to ensure she releases the club properly on the downswing. The way she lifts her head early toward the target is to achieve something similar to the way Ballard teaches us to fire the right side. This helps prevent the most common problem with low handicap players which is to get stuck on the downswing whereby your hands are trying to catch up to your lower body.

Thank you from DC!

So he doesn’t release it that much ?

Great research, thanks as usual for your insights

I would love to see the same swing anaylsis but with a draw

Great account of static positions as usual. He set his wrists early and the lead shoulder under the chin at the top. As you pointed out, the retention (increase?) of width from the top effected an early release of lag, which enabled him to "collect" the ball on a more shallow angle, albeit at the expense of speed at the bottom. His intention was not to "hit" the ball. However, IMHO, the key to his success was the movement of his upper body on the downswing. He slides the pelvis toward the target but then simply rotates the chest to the target, kicks his right knee in, the trail shoulder moves under the chin and the arms are passive. After he sets the wrists early, the rest is a big muscle swing. Obviously reliable. He won 6 majors hitting par-4s with 2-iron approach shots. Arguably, he was a balky putter; always looked to be laboring on the greens.

I think he might of talked about how the Chemo he took to help get rid of his cancer had an effect on his CNS. I know when I had Chemo for my cancer, after getting chemo every day for a week, I would go to the golf course to do just do some putting, because I was too weak to hit any balls and I could feel the nerves in my hands, fingers and arms were just buzzing. And it kept getting worse each week of chemo I had, and although that buzzing went away, my nerves were never the same.

Examples of people who don’t actually have a short swing

No chance he’s 5-7 to 5-8. 5-5 is more like it.

It always looked to me that Faldo was taking the club back and not swinging it back. Not all great strikers were swingers but Faldo looked more like he was making sure he was piecing together his backswing swing in segments, and looked a little contrived.

5:20 the balls ... to criticise the swing of one of the best players to ever live with nit-picking about head movement. Especially when lowering your head in the backswing / downswing probably creates a lot more problems than it solves ... who is this guy?

Notice how his hands at address and impact are at the same spot each time.

Was there ever a part 2 of this video?

Was there ever a part two of this? You mentioned the next video of the downswing but I can’t find it.

I agree, 100%. Lifting the heel allows for a more athletic downswing.

Horrid swings, both of them. Neither of them ever won a major.

Feet are open. What about knees, hips and shoulders- where are pointed at ?

I was enjoying the swing compa6risons and then ...,WTF. Gene Sarazen shot golf balls at blacks?!?!? At 10:19, Sarazen shoots golf balls at black people who are standing there like they're blindfolded. I've searched the Internet for context but came up empty, the closest reference being blindfolded 'last man standing fights' Augusta used to hold pre WW2 with black teens. Do you know where that clip came from and do you have more background?

A good analysis Wayne of the Great Moe Norman’s golf swing. In a way Moe’s golf swing was OVER THE TOP.

Je suis curieux de connaître l'écartement entre les pieds en centimètres ainsi que la distance entre la pointe du pied gauche et la balle.J' ai remarqué également qu'il ne tenait pas les fers au bout du grippe, il reste environ 4 à 5 cm, ses mains sont basses sur le grippe

I believe for the most part his backswing looks like it goes out in the takeaway is because his body is aimed so far left, when the camera is behind him in relation to the target. If the camera was further to the right and aligned with his body, it would look different, it might still appear to go out away from his body but not nearly as much.

I would like you do an analysis of Larry Nelson’s swing. He definitely moved the hands out towards the ball on the downswing.

mike is smart guy , love his stuff, he has a better swing than most people who play golf unprofessionally but it's not even close to the genius, artistry , mechanics and majesty of hogan.

Love this Wayne! Years ago I watched Hardy’s one plane vid and what he said stuck to me for years was “ the one thing Hogan taught but he never actually did was to lead with right elbow.” Your video proves that yes, Hogan DID just as Hogan taught. Recently I saw padraig harrington tip about throwing a tennis ball a certain way to get the right elbow in front and it was the single most effective tip I’ve ever used. I’m way way more confident in my swing now. Darn you Jim Hardy!

I don’t if it is just me Elkington looks like he does something different in his backswing compared to a lot of players. It looks like although with his driver his left shoulder makes it look like a 90 degree shoulder turn, his right shoulder seems to be lagging behind a little.