[vj]

Hogan has always been the man for me. He was not so good starting out and then rose to the top of the game. Tiger gets nailed by the press for changing his swing from 2000...but Hogan was in constant change, Lynn mentions this on an earlier post.

His swing changed from the '30's to the 40's. Power Golf was written and then nearly a decade later Five Lessons brought forth new fundamentals. Mr. Hogan emersed himself in the swing and kept improving the motions. The written documents and pictures themselves can lead all of us down an introspective road.

Hogan said there must be enough weight on the left side to start the downswing with the rotation of the hips. John Schlee mentions the turning point. Lynn mentions the "Ditty". Ballard talks about the two axis of the swing (But missed the boat in my opinion). Demarott speaks of Hogan's club "bottoming out" in front of the ball. Claude Harmon told one of his assistants that Hogan didn't mention his "huge lateral motion" in Five Lessons. The sequence of the movement of the pivot is the missing piece. He steps forward during his pre shot routine in Shell's...I believe because he wanted that "feel" in his feet but didn't want them to see his sequence...and it is at the exact place he begins to move his center of mass forward when hitting shots.

The Missing Piece isn't clubface control. It is simply Hogan's way of eliminating many unwanted shots. The physics and geometry it sets up explains his belief about planes he describes in Five Lessons. Mark Blackburn and I saw many people for many years that were "running out of right arm" because of where their center of mass was and what it made the left shoulder do. Dave Hamiliton helped me so much with the physics of the motion. All we want to do is contribute to what we have been taught by numerous teachers and players. That is one of the greatest things about the game...we can all share knowledge and pass it down through the generations.

Five Lessons now makes perfect sense.....at least for me.