Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
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You can shoot in the 70′s! Ben Hogan has long believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently — and here, with Herbert Warren Wind, and artist Anthony Ravielli, he tells you, step by step, just how to go about it. The greatest golfer of our generation has distilled his experience as teacher, player, and observer of golf into a series of richly illustrated “visual instructions” that not only can improve your game and lower your scor
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I love Golf. There is no doubt about that. The concepts of golf instruction and the creation of a consistent golf swing can be frustrating. Tiger woods has said many times that the key to great golf is consistency. I focus on this aspect of the game. The most important aspect of a great golfer’s swing is minimizing your misses so you can be consistent enough to score well everyday. I have taken many lessons over the 25 years I have been playing. My golf swing has changed many times due to different forms of golf instruction and I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. The most important thing I have learned is what are the KEY factors to a good golf swing. Why do we always talk about how players like Jim Furyk and Lee Trevino have unusual swings that get the job done time and time again. I have come to understand that there are certain secrets these players and all other good players have about the golf swing. Golf instruction can be confusing and the golf swing sometimes feels bad one day and good the next. This blog is about us getting down to what we REALLY need to learn about the golf swing and to simplify our Golf Instruction so that we can play great consistent golf!
I have figured out what is important in the golf swing and what kind of Golf Instruction works. I now play professionaly and am working my way onto the PGA Tour. I want to share these secrets with you because I think golf can be such an enjoyable game when you learn the real reasons the golf swing works as opposed to all of the confusing and time-wasting concepts found in most Golf Instruction. The golf swing is simple and repeatable when you focus on the right kind of Golf Instruction. I don’t have really bad golf shots anymore such as hooks and slices or even “tiger woods forbid” the S WORD (Shank). I really think the key is simplifying the golf swing. I hit the ball very consistently and the key to my theory on golf instruction is that it isn’t complicating and you can learn to do the right things and perfect them quickly!
I play pro golf and I meet so many good players every week. They all have different forms of the golf swing and they have all received different Golf Instruction. Some of them are so confused and so focused on things like how their back-swing looks or if they have a good finish. They are way off and I am confident that I will beat them when I sense this about them. You can’t focus in on mechanics like that especially if they don’t simplify the game for you. You will never have a consistent repeatable golf swing like that.
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You Won’t Have to Buy Anything Else to Improve Your Golf,
Forget all the other gimmicks you see on television infomercials; the super drivers, wedges, trouble clubs, fairway woods, videos, swing trainers, etc. Also, don’t pay any attention to the lessons presented monthly in the two leading golf magazines. They’re often in conflict with each other and give you too many things to think about during the swing. If you really want to improve your golf, buy this book.
Written by one of golf’s greatest players and clearest thinkers on the mechanics of the golf swing, this book will, in simple and concise language and wonderfully detailed drawings, improve your game. My belief is, someone who has trouble breaking 100 will be able to get to 90 in short order. Anyone who shoots bogey golf (90) will be able to work him or herself into the low 80′s. And if you’re like me, in the 7 to 10 handicap range, the book presents a number checks on the grip, stance, and swing plane so that if your game does occasionally go awry, you’ll soon be back in the groove. Mr. Hogan was correct. Anyone who is reasonably coordinated and applies the principles detailed in this book, should be able to build a repeating swing and break 80 on a consistant basis.
I had to smile as I read some of the other reviews of this book. Like many of the other reviewers, I too have had to repurchase this book a number of times because of the difficulty in getting the book back from those I’ve loaned it to. Other than getting a lesson from a top flight teaching pro, this book will do more to improve your game than anything else that’s on the market.
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|Timeless Instruction from a Master,
This excellent teaching device found me at the right time, having mysteriously started struggling with my takeaway and back swing [right elbow flying out at the top!]. I poured through it in a night to search for the secret cure and I found it. I can’t believe it took me 18 years of golf to discover this book. This really should be in every beginner’s bag, to get his or her mechanics and fundamentals together, as well as any long time golfer who occasionally ‘loses’ it. It’s quite a testament to its staying power to note that there are no reviews of less than five stars for this wonderful manual [my rating will be no different]. Hogan boils down the game to one important aspect, striking the ball. Grip, stance, setup, back swing, downswing are all meticulously verbally described, and then highlighted by amazingly detailed and accurate drawings. Written as a series of SI articles in the 50′s, the teaching voice has lost none of its punch over the ensuing years. The gods are in the details, and I noted immediately in the setup section things I was doing to hinder the chain-reaction of his preferred swing. Left foot out a quarter turn, hmm, that’s new but makes sense, elbows at hipbone at address, and arms very close to chest to allow the right elbow to fold properly. That’s what I needed. His description and the images of the glass / back swing / downswing plane will provide appropriate visual clues during practice. I found his discussion of the waggle and supination of left hand on follow through also quite interesting. I’ve purchased copies of this for my long-time golfer mother and my girlfriend who’s just taking up the game, hopefully they’ll enjoy it as much as I did, and we can discuss Hogan’s straightforward instruction with a common background understanding.
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|The authoritave book on the basics,
As a kid I took a few lessons from a top notch instructor, and I always found it helpful to think back and swing the way he taught me. Now in my early 40′s, after years of infrequent play and bad advice, I lost my game. I read Hogan’s book, and realized that it was the Hogan method – grip, stance, everything – that I was taught as a kid. This book was a godsend.
Hogan doesn’t just tell you what to do, he explains why. He shows how to make the basic REPEATING swing that can be used with ALL clubs, driver through PW. This makes the game so simple. You can use this book to quickly learn the correct swing, and confidently hit a good shot every time because you know you are doing it the right way. This lets you think less and less about swinging mechanics and more and more about strategy, and the game becomes immensely more pleasurable.
Put this book and a 9 iron by your bedstand, practice as you read it, and you will find youurself hitting with more confidence and consistency after the first chapter.
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