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Ben Hogan's Real Golf Secret......It is in the Feet
Ben Hogan did have a secret, but it wasn't in his golf swing....at least
not the swing itself. It's not possible to gain Hogan's accuracy from just
a single golf tip because Hogan's secret was in the process he used to control his golf
swing to become one of the most accurate golfers of all time. This is also
the very reason his secret has been an enigma for over 40 years.
Ben Hogan's secret was his extraordinary ability to focus. This was not a
gift from heaven. No, Hogan spent long hours perfecting his focus
technique.
Hogan would take hours to hit just forty balls. He would hit a ball and spend a few minutes
to rewind the shot in his mind and go over every aspect of it. Before he
hit the next ball he knew everything he did right and wrong with that shot
and was ready to hit the next one even better.
Hogan fine tuned every swing until it was perfect. He didn't want any bad
swings to creep into his system and create any bad habits. His swing is
not one to emulate unless you are built like him, but his methods will
make any golfer strike the ball well.
If you read very carefully, you can see in Hogan's books just what he did.
The problem is that you must understand the swing and his process before
you can properly interpret what he wrote. It was only after discovering
and perfecting Hogan's system that I re-read his books for probably the
tenth time, and realized that he did share his secret, but that he was
looking at it from a stand point of someone who already understood.
Hogan's swing secret was not just the balance and setup...it's about how
he achieved and controlled balance during his swing and how you can get
similar results using his control methods.
The key phrase is how he controlled his swing movement. Anyone can make a
great swing once in a while, but Hogan was known for doing it almost every
time.
Hogan said that the game is played keeping the weight on the inside halves
of the feet, but that is as far as he went. It's too bad because this
statement is the key and the starting point for understanding Hogan's
secret of control. His secret? The swing is controlled from the feet.
I have taken pros and blindfolded them, leaving them to monitor their
swing completely by feel and been able to get them to not only to strike
the ball purely, but to shape their shots accurately using only feedback
from their feet.
Most of the pros on tour use his methods, except they use them
subconsciously. Hogan took the process to the conscious level so he could
monitor and correct his swing in motion.
Today's pros have been convinced that they shouldn't think about anything
during the swing, but it has been proven that the mind will not think
about nothing. Like it or not, your mind works all of the time, as shown
in your dreams. The trick with the golf swing is to focus in such a way so
that those thoughts are completely visual, thereby never bothering the
brain with any distracting conscious thoughts.
Do you wonder why Tiger no longer uses a guru? It's because he is working
on the same process. When he perfects it, and he is close, he'll be
unstoppable.
Anyone who wants to give Tiger a game in the future will have to know this
information or fall by the wayside.
How fast does it work? I have shown high handicap golfers the very first
balance routine right on the golf course and watched as most of them
immediately started hitting their shots more accurately.
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