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Modern stack and tilt golf swing9/18/2023 Goes without saying that some of the above is my own original thought, and some comes from a conversation with David Wedzik. I'm really interested in what about two or three people have to say about this, but also what "everyone else" thinks too. There's no way you get your hip sticking out farther than your chest in the "Reverse K" swing. Instead, we see the shoulders pretty much matched up with the left hip, while the right hip sticks out behind (away from the target) the chest. If Hogan had been in the "Reverse K" position that some people (including Mike Bender) believe is a good position, the shoulders would be further to the left in that illustration, with the left hip sticking out in front. Now, if you've read Five Lessons a lot you'll notice the second image is from page 73 (in my softcover book), which also clearly shows how the shoulders turned about in relation to the hips. In other words, Hogan wanted so badly to keep his hips from swaying back on the backswing so much that sometimes they'd move a little forward on the takeaway (and then obviously they'd push forward on his downswing). Video of Hogan sometimes shows a slight reverse K position, but careful study of these videos shows that his upper body didn't really move back, but his lower center (the center of his hips, between his belt buckle and his tailbone) moved a bit forward on the backswing. But they're close enough that we can pretty much assume there aren't any optical illusions here. The camera angle in the Hogan illustrations is a tad higher. The "camera" angles aren't exactly the same. Straight from the mouths of Bennett and Plummer. So the drawings accurately display what Ben Hogan wanted them to show.Īaron Baddeley is exaggerating everything a little bit in that Golf Digest article. If the drawings in the book weren't exactly right, he'd have had them re-drawn. The image may surprise some people, and I'm curious what everyone thinks of the image.įirst, some things which I take as fact*:īen Hogan was particular. This picture shows illustrations of Ben Hogan from "Five Lessons" laid over the prototypical Stack and Tilter, Aaron Baddeley. I'd include it, but it's a bit too wide and I hate it when images stretch the browser.
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