Ben Hogan's Swing Secret, Explained | Film Study | Golf Digest

[@HA-eb8ux]

The film study video series is my happy place. 🌊

[@howtoactuallyinvest]

The arms stuck to side swing thought is everything. The key is actually the lead arm. Most focus you hear is on not flaring out the trail arm but keeping the lead elbow stuck to your side forces your body to turn correctly to square the club at impact

[@themaestroswog7805]

Come on Ben Hogans swing was so much more than the video described. Almost every modern great swinger of the club has either studied hogan or been taught feels of the Hogan golf swing. Nothing simple about the golf swing! Here are just a few of the Hogan basics ..... Set up and posture and what I call bracing .... Learning to use the left side for the right handed player .... The feeling of getting the right hand and elbow underneath the club while turning back but still staying on top of the ball ( not sliding or swaying or moving out of the wine barrel like another great teacher preaches) Loading into the right heal and ankle on the back swing and starting to move into the left heal and ankle even before the finish of the completed backswing. This is the two directional move that even Bobby Jones wrote about. Another major fundamental in Hogans swing was never allowing the right arm to ever have any tightness in it through out the golf swing. Than just to sort of make my point was Hogan explaining the swing plane and how it comes about. All of this is just scratching the service of building a great golf swing that can hold up to any pressure a player may put the swing under. The golf swing the hardest thing in all of sports but we all love the journey.

[@russellkasprzyk4934]

Good video, good comment by you because there IS so much more to HIS swing. He absolutely has the swing of a baseball player IMO, the way he drives his weight forward into the ball, reminds me of when I played ball…now I’m trying to claw my way to a scratch golfer lol. Got a long way to go.

[@A-FrameWedge]

Hogan’s grip was much stronger in the years before his accident when he was winning majors and plying some of his best golf. But after the accident he could not use his lower body like he used to, so this is why he changed his grip. He hit the ball great before his accident, but since his legs were so compromised, he found the ball going left, and he hated hooks.

[@djdibibar516]

Been fighting a hook so experimenting with a neutral grip, now not hooking, but have hit some shanks! Always back to the drawing board.

[@simonleach3812]

Shanks: try turning your shoulders through the ball at a steeper angle. If you turn your shoulders flat, everything comes out to meet the ball including the hosel. If you think this gives insufficient space between you and the ball and you are going to chunk, you're releasing too early. The straight line release comes after the ball. Try to imagine hitting a ball at least 1' near the target on the target line.

[@joeldriver-sp2rg]

For a right handed golfer the death shot is a ball that starts left and keeps going which is a pull and can also be a pull hook. Hogan essentially got rid of that by weakening his grip and that allowed him to completely take the entire left side of the golf course out of play.

[@philhopkins159]

Brilliant video. Well done Luke.

[@Jaezon]

Probably the greatest Golf video of all time. Well done.

[@brianp4017]

Hogan taught an anti hook swing to a world of slicers

[@jamesmc81]

Hogans grip and swing fixed my slice. It puts you in position to hit as hard as you can with your right hand and allows for a slight over the top move.

[@kp6344]

Fantastic video

[@jeffreycooley2032]

Hogan had incredible hand eye coordination, as well. Also, he was very strong, despite not being a physical specimen in the way Ernie Els is

[@mudddge]

Hogan before the accident was a tremendous athlete

[@deandilaura7141]

Jody Vasquez explains in depth in his book about Hogan’s set up, club specs, etc. A book I highly recommend.

[@cyhawk1172]

Excellent stuff. Great final point, your swing is your swing. It's a lot in the grip!

[@marktheblake]

Great point. These days the good teachers are calling these secrets "match ups" Hogan quite obviously found his.

[@LeeTrevinoFans]

My 10 mins. of bliss on YT are watching these. Weve got a Moe video. Now a Ben Video. I need an LT video! Cheers LKD!

[@briananketell519]

First time I've heard about the thumbs. Now it all makes sense. However, there were a few, like Knudsen, who could mimic his swing. I wonder why that is?

[@ClassicGolfSwings]

Nicklaus also said he tried to have the biggest arc on the way back and the way through

[@mazdaspeedmx512lbs]

Iv solved the golf swing and had to make a completely new model. I don't use a swing plane. Currently the entire golf world sees the swing in 2 dimensions I use all dimensions. Iv really solved it

[@MichaelEnright-gk6yc]

Saguto Golf has the modern interpretation of Ben Hogan's swing simple and easy.

[@raymondrapcavage5746]

The main component in Hogans swing was "connection". Moving the arms and body in unison and then at impact, it was alot of right hand.

[@gibsonguitarplayer]

This!!!!!

[@chrisjeffers7300]

nice!

[@higbyprigby9648]

I hit the ball nearly dead straight and have never thought of hands, path or face to path. My grip is slightly stronger than neutral, I take it a bit inside and my release is atrocious. Set up and pivot can control side spin easier than directing the hands. And “once at the top the swing’s pretty much over anyway” - B. Harmon.

[@ianbeardsall4633]

All that works because he gets that right elbow tight down on the inside. I’ve messed with this and doing that clearly has a big effect.

[@thatwilldonicely1314]

The great golf teacher john jacobs rip, used to say hogans book kept him for years as tons of olayers who had got the book came to him with their swings in big trouble ! And how many players now a tually look as though they model him? Hardly any, hogan was unique, an astonishing freak of a golfer but a disaster to mimic as that is what many 5 lessons readers did, and suffered for it 😊

[@jimiverson3085]

Hogan's secret worked if you had Hogan's hands and forearms, which were also very strong. If not, well......

[@MrLuigiFercotti]

Yep, smaller guy with strong hands and forearms.

[@jacklabrador6981]

Awesome video

[@christianiooss1274]

👏👏👏

[@mazdaspeedmx512lbs]

I literally solved the swing.I formed a new form of kinesiology.I have a completely new model of the swing that Nobody has ever seen before. I don't want to tell anybody because I don't want anybody to steal it. It's complex because reality is complex

[@ohooper]

See you on tour soon 🤝

[@OctavioCasas-rl2mm]

The secret is moving both thumbs to the left creating folcrum on the right knuckle The waggle becomes aguaranteed shot try it make me rich

[@philipkingsworth6638]

. BEN HOGAN should have clearly explained his advantage with his double joints lol

[@divotdigger247]

Such a jarring voice. Ultimate jar. J.A.R.

[@ohooper]

Find peace

[@stekaplan123]

Unfortunately, I am still looking for my "secret". 😄

[@TrentonO3000]

So Luke, you just ripped off Secret Base's editing style of KZbin videos and hoped no one would notice, huh?

[@Rich-ey7jv]

Hogan was right. Play a fade. As he says, turn through the shot. Unless you're super talented, you will never hit a draw constantly. Some can do it, but not your average player. But, an average player (like me) can be a single digit handicap by hitting mostly fades. Sorry, the secret isn't any more mysterious than that!

[@divotdigger247]

Oh no and he’s got his jarring face out again. That’s even more jarring than I’m his jarring voice. 🫣

[@robertminer182]

Good thing that he tilted!

[@jonathanpretorius4460]

Why does this guy talk so funny?

[@chriskarabatsos8341]

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[@golfswingmagic420]

Same old wrong story 👎, I want to know what it really is 🤔

[@jimgarrow8423]

I learned nothing.

[@edge21str]

Is it really that hard to takeway the essence of it? In short: There is no one size fits all secret to a good swing. Hogan had a very unique anatomy and settled on a grip and swing that played into it. If you wanna do that too, try out stuff and see what works for you.

[@stephenos2019]

Congratulations for celebrating your ignorance

[@555Trout]

I'd delete this if I were you.

[@555Trout]

@richardmingey2179 If you have to ask it doesn't matter. No offense meant.

[@KarlG-y2v]

😎I saw a set of Hogan's irons that looked like something you'd pass up at a garage sale but the key thing about them was they were about 7degree's flat so he could unload his hands as hard as he wanted and not worry about the ball going left. What an incredible individual he was.🏌‍♂

[@timdailey2690]

There’s a video out there where Gary Player said Hogan told him you can never be too flat.