Ben Hogan Short
Organize your eyes to hit great golf shots
As complicated as golf has been made to appear it is really only an eye to hand game that involves using a stick( golf club) a ball and your creative genius. Having learned from some of the greatest players that ever lived ie. Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret, Jackie Burke and numerous others I can tell you that they kept it simple.
The Ben Hogan that everyone reads about is nothing like the man that I knew growing up at Champions golf club in Houston, Texas. Mr. Hogan used to come there often to see his mentor Jimmy Demaret and get advice on his game. During a few of these trips I had the opportunity to get to know Mr. Hogan and ask him questions about how to play my best.
He made it clear that you had to play golf by feel utilizing your own ability to control the golf club in your hands while using your eyes to guide the hands both into the setup and throughout the swing. Mr. Hogan told me that trying to imitate him or any other golfer was not only a waste of time but would doom me to failure.
Through watching some of his practice sessions I can tell you Hogan saw and felt every shot before he ever swung the club. I can also tell you that he said his book was only a description of what his golf swing looked like and not what he felt.
The only thing Mr. Hogan and the other players weren't able to communicate clearly was how important a role the eyes played in peak performance. I could see that they used their eyes to map everything out but didn't realize until later how anyone could be taught to use them to keep the mind organized and occupied.
By using the eyes to map out where the hands are going in relation to the target and by using them to calmly lead the hands both into the setup and through the swing or stroke your mind stays busy doing a productive job and your eyes aren't wandering all over the place. To fully understand and appreciate how important it is to organize and map things out with the eyes try picking something up from a table or a desk while your eyes are wandering all over the room. That is exactly what happens to most golfers because they are trying to focus on the ball, where their backswing is how to get the club to impact and guide the golf ball to the target all in under two seconds.
In order to start using your eyes correctly let's pick an area three to six inches ahead of the ball in relation to your target and have the eyes stay there in a soft focus until the hands start forward during the swing (no backswing thoughts allowed). Then let the eyes move slightly ahead of the hands until they come to a calm and relaxed finish. The players who can commit to this and practice improving it will see tremendous results. Start with putting and move your way up to full shots once you master the eye hand coordination in your putting.
Obviously this is not the only thing you must be good at to play your best but it is probably the most important one.
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The Real Secret To The Ben Hogan Golf Swing
By John Lynch
What was the real secret to the Ben Hogan Golf Swing?
Dr. Bob Rotella (Doc) the sports psychologist stated in his book "Golf is Not a Game of Perfect" he interviewed Ben Hogan shortly before Hogan's death in 1997. Rotella asked Hogan what the real secret to his golf swing was?
Hogan replied he always told people his "secret" was the cupping of his left wrist at the top of his backswing which eliminated the nasty hook he had early in his career. Hogan then told Rotella the reason he said this was because people wanted to hear something mechanical about the swing - so he gave them what they wanted to hear...
Which was a lie!
Hogan went on to say it wasn't until 1946 when he was 34 that he won his first major - the PGA Championship. He said he started winning major championships because he stopped being so mechanically minded on the course and began playing by "feel" and trusting his golf swing.
Since the Ben Hogan golf swing at this point in his life was already fundamentally sound because of all those years of tireless practice, there was no need for him to think about his swing while under the extreme pressures of major championship golf. Hogan started to trust his golf swing out on the golf course and eliminated all those mechanical thoughts preventing him from entering the winner's circle more often.
Ben Hogan learned how to take his golf swing from the practice range to the course. He said this was like lifting a ton of bricks off of him, freeing him to use his imagination and instinct rather than his ego driven intellect.
Once Hogan began playing by feel on the course his golf game took a quantum leap! He began to score, and score often...
The result, 9 major championships!
Everyone always thought (and still do) that Ben Hogan's golf swing secret was the cupping of his left wrist at the top of the backswing which prevented him from hooking the ball - a demon he struggled with for a decade.
Hogan said you need to trust whatever golf swing you bring to the course and simply react to your target. The time to tinker with your golf swing is NOT out on the course but on the practice range...
Now you know the real secret to the Ben Hogan Golf Swing!
Play well.
John Lynch
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