The Swing: Body versus Arms

[Richie3Jack]

If you want to hit the ball consistently well with distance and accuracy, you let the body control the club.

Accuracy is usually determined by backswing plane, the hips, and spine angle. Power is usually determined by the hips.

What happens with arm swingers is they usually don't rotate the hips well enough or have a hip slide on the downswing and then rotate the hips. This more or less opens the clubface and the only way they can square up the club at impact is if they rotate the arms/hands.

Hogan is a player I would avoid trying to learn from. His backswing plane was flat which closes the clubface at the top. It's the main reason why he had problems with the hook early on in his career. It wasn't until he started sliding the hips on the downswing that he straightened out the hook because sliding the hips opens the clubface up. Essentially he was countering a flaw with another flaw, which is extremely difficult to do. But Hogan had great hand eye coordination and was relentless in his practice.

A better player to watch from is Sam Snead in his prime.





3JACK

[lolzzlolzz]

Hogan's swing is easy to learn. It doesn't require a great deal of hand eye coordination... the swing requires essentially zero manipulation of the hands. Actually... the swing practically times itself.

Also I think you are completely incorrect about Hogan's hook problem. Hogan had a hook because he used a strong/neutral grip. These grips require hand manipulation. When he changed to a weak grip (which requires no manipulation of the hands whatsoever, by the way), it helped him correct his hook. Note: I wrote "helped" him... there were other factors that helped him learn his almost perfect swing.