BEN HOGAN, TURNING OF THE LEFT HIP, COORDINATION WITH RIGHT KNEE, CREATE SWING PLANE, CLUB PATH ANGLES

 

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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED... 5/3/2011 I was designing an information sheet today for our Ladies Golf Academy, and ran across a couple side by side pictures of Ben Hogan at impact. After working long hours in the spring getting the golf shop ready and organizing leagues and activities, I hit balls every night from my backyard to our vacant lot and back again. four or five balls back and forth over and over again. I use different sand wedges with different heads and shafts and Zeke our dog chases the balls. I have been having trouble getting through the ball lately, hitting many fat sticking the club in the ground behind the ball. Just couldn’t get the club moving forward. I noticed the other day that I was just picking the club up and throwing it down with no body rotation. Then I came across the pictures of Ben Hogan, and started to remember how my lower body used to work before the neuropathy set into my lower legs and feet. So tonight I tried to emulate the relaxed right let that Hogan exhibited while turing his right hit at the same time. It was an amazing transformation. It suddenly didn’t matter how I moved my arms: the rotation of the left hip, whether straight around left, or a little up and down or down and up, set the swing path that I used to get the club face back to the ball. In other words, if I wanted to hit it level, I rotated the left hip around parallel to the ground. If I wanted to hit it a little higher the lefty hip started up a little and the club followed suit. If I wanted to hit a knock down, I moved my left hip slightly downward and the ball flight would be lower. Simply amazing how the right knee would loosen and the weight slift in relation to the speed of the right hip clearing. The hips dictated my arm speed and the trajectory and ditance of each wedge shot. I can’t wait to play again and give the a try for 18 holes! Entrance_Page.html