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I believe Hogan qualified his “three right hands” statement with the following paragraph.

“On a full shot you want to hit the ball as hard as you can with your right hand. But this is only half the story. HIT THE BALL AS HARD AS YOU CAN WITH BOTH HANDS. The left is a power hand, too. If you hit hard with only the right and let the left go to sleep, you will not only lose much valuable power, you also will run into all the errors that result when the right hand overpowers the left. YOU MUST HIT AS HARD WITH THE LEFT AS WITH THE RIGHT. “
(Lesson 4 page 99)

In the paragraph above he appears more concerned with the left not doing its job (going to sleep) and being overpowered by the right rather than being worried about a deficient right hand. He also wanted the “…right hand in a position to perform its share of the work but no more than its equal share”. (Lesson 1 p24). Here again he appears more concerned about the right hand dominating rather than it being deficient.

Given equal strength in both hands, if he desired the power of three right hands he must have also desired the power of three left hands (“the left is a power hand, too.”) so that the right hand did not dominate and in order to achieve his objective, which was to “HIT THE BALL AS HARD AS YOU CAN WITH BOTH HANDS.”