| Ben Hogan's secret was his extraordinary ability to | | | | results using his control methods. |
| focus. This was not a gift from heaven. No, Hogan | | | | The key phrase is how he controlled his swing |
| spent long hours perfecting his focus technique. | | | | movement. Anyone can make a great swing once in |
| Robert DeLeon, my mentor and a golf biomechanics | | | | a while, but Hogan was known for doing it almost |
| instructor, grew up in Austin Texas. Besides taking | | | | every time. |
| lessons from Harvey Penick, he had the opportunity | | | | Hogan said that the game is played keeping the |
| as a kid to sit and watch Hogan practice. Hogan | | | | weight on the inside halves of the feet, but that is as |
| would take hours to hit just forty balls. He would hit | | | | far as he went. It's too bad because this statement |
| a ball and spend a few minutes to rewind the shot in | | | | is the key and the starting point for understanding |
| his mind and go over every aspect of it. Before he | | | | Hogan's secret of control. His secret? The swing is |
| hit the next ball he knew everything he did right and | | | | controlled from the feet. |
| wrong with that shot and was ready to hit the next | | | | I have taken pros and blindfolded them, leaving them |
| one even better. | | | | to monitor their swing completely by feel and been |
| Hogan fine tuned every swing until it was perfect. He | | | | able to get them to not only to strike the ball purely, |
| didn't want any bad swings to creep into his system | | | | but to shape their shots accurately using only |
| and create any bad habits. His swing is not one to | | | | feedback from their feet. |
| emulate unless you are built like him, but his methods | | | | Most of the pros on tour use his methods, except |
| will make any golfer strike the ball well. | | | | they use them subconsciously. Hogan took the |
| If you read very carefully, you can see in Hogan's | | | | process to the conscious level so he could monitor |
| books just what he did. The problem is that you | | | | and correct his swing in motion. |
| must understand the swing and his process before | | | | Today's pros have been convinced that they |
| you can properly interpret what he wrote. It was | | | | shouldn't think about anything during the swing, but it |
| only after discovering and perfecting Hogan's system | | | | has been proven that the mind will not think about |
| that I re-read his books for probably the tenth time, | | | | nothing. Like it or not, your mind works all of the |
| and realized that he did share his secret, but that he | | | | time, as shown in your dreams. |
| was looking at it from a stand point of someone | | | | The trick with the golf swing is to focus in such a |
| who already understood. | | | | way so that those thoughts are completely visual, |
| Hogan's swing secret was not just the balance and | | | | with feedback based on feel, thereby never |
| setup...it's about how he achieved and controlled | | | | bothering the brain with any distracting conscious |
| balance during his swing and how you can get similar | | | | thoughts. |