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The swing methods of elite golfers may not be as they seem to be
Does this golf swing concept explain Ben Hogan’s secret
July 20th, 2010 
Robert Stonehill July 20th, 2010 Robert Stonehill 
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I think you are right. But also, Hogan did not entirely swing this way. If a player tries to hinge their wrists up it will make the right elbow stick out. Hogan’s pointed down, when he started winning. Also he allowed his weight to turn onto his right heel in the backswing. Pressing down with the right foot would prevent this. Hogan’s forward movement of his hips, in the backswing, was caused by his wide stance which caused his right leg to angle in towards his body and react against his turn.
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The club is rotated through approximately 90 degrees in the takeaway from address to the halfway transition.
half of that rotation derives from body turn and the other half comes from left forearm rotation coupled with backward hinging of the right wrist along with some folding of the right elbow.
Backward hinging of the left wrist occurs in conjunction with the forearm rotation in the wrist cocking process (hence Hogan’s reference to “cupping” of his left wrist)
Left forearm rotation does not activate a hinging of the wrist. It only opens the cluface. There is no need for forearm rotation anyway. Shoulder joint rotation provides us with all the rotation we need whilst keeping the cluface square in relation to the swing angle, which will be maintained thru the swing
For a long time instructors taught students to have the feeling you were “sitting” on a bar stool. I always believed we should have been teaching people to feel as though you were “leaning” back on a stool. The last thing you would ever want to do is sit in golf. Sitting will cause the golf club to swing too level to the ground in the downswing, and you will have a tendency to hit the ground behind the golf ball. w w w (dot) golferbreak80 (dot) c0m
Interesting anaylsis of what we see as an observer of Hogan’s swing. The only problem is that Hogan never mentioned any of the topics covered in this PowerPoint presentation in his instruction book Five Lessons. However, I admire your intuition and powers of observation.
I am very intrigued by your video presentation and I am also very interested in your training aid/device, when do you plan on starting to test your device? Please let me know.
Re mwelch22 question:
As stated in the video I intend to produce further videos featuring several novice golfers learning and training with prototypes of the device. Component and functional desciptions will be included.
Training aids which generally deal with only one swing aspect are limited in their effectiveness unless being applied to an otherwise sound technique as with Ben Hogan’s left forearm backward roll.
The device deals with all of the essential aspects of an effective swing.
How can I find out more about the device?