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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PICTURE . . .

http://golfresearch.com/hoganpictures/frame_11.html

I may get me a tramp stamp with this . . . . hot.

Hey Boss . . . how'd you get the photos of the website? I need those!!!

The magic move as Mr. Penick called it. Get this right and you can become a good ballstriker (assuming semi-educated hands). In the slot better than anybody in the history of the game perhaps:

http://golfresearch.com/hoganpictures/frame_15.html

Did you notice the person shagging balls for him dressed in red?

Could this be his private practice area between the fairways at Shady Oaks?

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Originally Posted by mrodock (Post 50603)

A fantastic sequence could be made from the down the line shots . . .

There will never be another as cool as Hogan . . .

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Originally Posted by O.B.Left (Post 50605)

Did you notice the person shagging balls for him dressed in red?

Could this be his private practice area between the fairways at Shady Oaks?

I noticed that he wasn't in all the shots . . . I'm betting that Hogan took him out sniper style.

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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 50599)

Ben Hogan absolutely employed Extensor Action. No one kept his Right Arm at 'full stretch' -- given the alignments of the Plane and the Right Forearm Flying Wedge -- better than he. Even into his eighties, his 'long Right Arm' into the Finish was a thing of beauty, and it served as the model for Tiger Woods's Right Arm Finish today.

Homer Kelley named and defined Extensor Action. He identified it, gave it its precision and endowed it with the importance it deserves. But, he was not the first to teach it. In the classics, at least two others come to mind:

Robert MacDonald, Golf, 1927.

Percy Boomer, On Learning Golf, 1946.

I would also add Seymour Dun, Golf Fundamentals, 1922, except that his emphasis on the "stiff" Left Arm was via strong left triceps action, with nary a mention of the right triceps (and its responsibility).

Thanks Yoda

The slack you take up, your lag and your actual slacks are world class too.

'The King' Noticed

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Originally Posted by O.B.Left (Post 50609)

. . . your actual slacks are world class too.

There's a story behind this that goes all the way back to the 1964 Masters. We'll start a 2008 Masters thread, and I'll tell you about it tomorrow!

:redface:

I have to say, even if I were Fred Funk and hit one out of bounds every 125 years I still wouldn't jump onto a golf forum with the name O.B. Left. It would make me gag just looking at my handle. How do you do it?

My middle initials are O.B. A fact that really amused some golfing buddies back when I was 16 or so. The left side or the avoidance there of used to be my main goal back then. I used to have one of those late seventies reverse C type swings back then and could hook a half wedge. My pals thought I was aptly named and added the "left".

For the last 20 years or so I fear not the left side, or a cyber name, touch wood. I can now hit it OB right or left!

Oh frig now Im jinxed, thanks.