King of Swing : The Real Secrets Behind Ben Hogan's Perfect Golf Swing

by McLean, Jim; McCarthy, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780470876244
• ISBN10: 0470876247
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book looks at Hogan?s swing more closely than anything ever done, McLean's aim to describe clearly and concisely its key components. What?s more, this book will give you the opportunity, via its rare photographs, to look at and observe Ben Hogan yourself. And along the way McLean will show you how you can integrate Hogan?s mechanics into your own game. The key to this book, what makes it like no other, are the three series of film stills of Hogan at his very best in the last 1940s before his terrible car accdident and how McLean uses them to show the details and the important motions of Hogan's entire golf swing. A single drawn illustration or photograph of Hogan is usually totally worthless in identifying the secrets to his swing. But in this book you will be able study his perfect blend of club head, club shaft, hands, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, and head motion. Hogan?s swing was like a symphony of movements, with an ideal sequential development of power, and by viewing it closely, you will have an ideal model for your own swing. McLean also lays out the many secrets to Hogan's swing. Fifteen of them, in fact. He cover important topics such as the grip, the waggle, two plane swing, the left hip action, lateral motion, rotation and turning movements, head position, cupping the left wrist, rotating the left arm, supination or the bowing the left wrist at impact, the long right arm, and a straight balanced finish. And he discusses Hogan?s use of big grips and stiff shafts, and how from his swing we learned how the big muscles guide the swing, the hips and legs leading the shoulders in the downswing while the arms are connected to the body, elimination of any conscious hand action or manipulation. Finally he offers Hogan's own drills. This book is the closest anyone will get to observing Hogan in person, which McLean has done too, as have the many other golf greats whose knowledge about Hogan he's incorporated into the book.

Author Biography

JIM McLEAN has worked for more than 30 years with tour players such as Keegan Bradley, Cristie Kerr, Alexis Thompson, and Erik Compton. His golf schools are ranked as the best in America. Since the 1960s, he has worked with his research partner, Carl Welty, pioneering the use of video in detailed analysis of both professional and amateur golfers.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ken Venturi v

I ntroduction: Watching Hogan 1

1 The Many Secrets of Hogan’s Swing 7

2 The Three Sides of a Swing 29

3 The Eight-Step Analysis 41

4 Face-On View 53

5 Down-the-Target-Line View 103

6 Forty-Five-Degree-Angle View 131

7 Left-Handed Swing Sequence with Analysis 159

8 Hogan’s Practice Routines and Drills 171

Conclusion 177

A Personal Ben Hogan Bibliography 181

Further Resources 213

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