The difference between Ben Hogan's teachings and many modern day instructions is that Hogan's instructions actually work, even if, or especially if, you don't have the hand-eye coordination and flexibility of a tour pro. I could give many examples of how Mr. Hogan's teachings have made me a bogey golfer. Many may think that's not too good, which is true, but then again, I'm 70 years old. Good videos. Thanks,
Great video, thanks. I am a big fan of Ben and Moe Norman, who was also very serious about the feeling of the "lead-hand-below-trail-hand" post impact and Moe hit it very straight
Moe Norman, Lee Trevino, George Knudson, and Ben Hogan all supinated the right forearm(hand) from top of BS to Impact. Right hand working below left hand from top of BS to impact. Right hand below left hand all the way. th-cam.com/video/r5LEelOEbQg/w-d-xo.html
Great instructions and really helpful. For several years i had the iron 'yips' and whilst fine on the range hopeless on the course. Not helped by being right handed but playing golf as a left hander. Score now coming down and confidence rising. Thanks Steve
Just wanted to say that I love this series, you are explaining Mr Hogans' swing thoughts so well. I am reading along in the book with each video and it makes everything easier to understand. Keep giving us this great content and I am sure you will blow through 100k subscribers. Cheers.
Fantastic! What a great explanation and demonstration on the “why” we don’t need a super strong grip! Funny because when I started Eureka I kept adjusting my grip bit by bit to reduce the hook to a draw instead of closing my stance again. Mine is still a bit stronger than Hogan but we are talking way different skill levels!!! Thanks Sensei!
Steve…been working on Eureka fundamentals adding the Hogan ideas from your latest videos…had a great ball striking day today…6 pars in a row on the way to 80…great stuff from your instruction…thanks!
This is excellent, just been reading the book and practicing to get the feel, I was struggling with this part and this has made it a bit clearer,, one question I have for anyone still on this video,, why does it feel my shots are all over drawing if I go after it?
Second time I have watched this video, thx. I've been reading Ben Hogan 5 Lessons, it's so much bette,r in color as you say, thanks again. Keep up the good work.
I've been following your Hogan series and it's really starting to pay dividends. I've also introduced a feeling that I'm shortening my backswing and speeding up the takeaway/transition to a more pronounced hip turn/followthrough, this has improved my ball striking significantly. Thanks for these great videos 👍
Thanks so much Steve for the many videos! Love where you're going with the Ben hogan series many golfers out here in amateur land are asking How! Why. And What. Keep watching people's. ps he's not a young pup either apologises Steve laters dashman
You are as good as Hogan was. Thanks a million. It is hard to understand the left wrist action after the impact. At what point of golf swing, left wrist supinates ?
I love all things Hogan SteveO! This particular lesson about the left wrist is particularly illuminating. The problem for me is this...the wrist is a very difficult part of the body to understand what it is doing when it is doing. Know what I mean? The wrist is a conduit. It is merely transferring motion...energy. Hard to visualise in the middle of a swing. The same is true in tennis strokes. But the thumb is not so difficult to trace. In fact...when I saw this video and the illustration from page 102 in my "The Modern Fundamentals of Golf" it was the range of the left thumb that I cued in on immediately. If you do the drill that you are doing in your video and merely focus on the thumb the "feels and reals" easily morph together into a motion. I stood repeatedly doing the Hogan half swing drill with just the left hand and it was a "Eureka Moment". The club was swinging naturally back outside the right shoulder and all I had to do was put my right hand on the grip and there it was. MR. HOGAN. Thanks man!
I've been playing for ten years without having a clue about what the hands do through impact. One video and three buckets later I was on plane, hitting the Christmas stuffing out the ball with a flat left wrist. What sort of wizardry is this?! Thank you.
This video is illustrating how to hit a punch shot, left hand leading. Ben Hogan supinated the right forearm from top of BS to impact. The left wrist pronated going into impact. Then Ben Hogan pulled (parametric acceleration) the left hand up and around his left hip after impact, then pronating to his follow through.
ALWAYS knew HOGAN'S SWING was the BEST but struggled to take it from his BOOK, The 5 FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF and actually replicate it. What I DISCOVERED OVER MY 20 YEARS of playing golf and watching hundreds of Teaching Pros explain Hogan's Swing is that they really were clueless and also THAT the so called Modern Swing was inferior to Ben Hogan's. So, with Ben's book I SET OUT ON MY NEW MISSION to discover the HOLY GRAIL of GOLF, BEN HOGAN'S SWING, discarding as well disregarding all the online and offline experts ( drips under pressure ) Whilst checking out videos of BEN on TH-cam to study, up came THE IMPOSTORS videos of Mr HOGAN AS WELL all explaining what he was doing. Almost at the end of my patience for these impostors, I THOUGHT i would watch one more and confirm my strong conviction and so i proceeded to watch a redheaded scotsman explain THE 5 FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF ! WHAT I FOUND and to my AMAZEMENT was STEVE JOHNSTON demonstrating with clarity and precision BEN'S SWING ! IT'S LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY ! Everyone will improve THAT FOLLOWS STEVE'S INSTRUCTION, but the discerning GOLFER WILL CASH IN !!
If you look at hogan old swing video closely ,the coloured ones the best and even in the book. With his right elbow move. Right forearm to the sky. This lays the shaft down quite a bit and his face is wide open . So when the shaft gets to about hip high he can start to turn the left wrist down . Witch makes it flat at impact with a sq face every-time. I can do this and with my normal swing with trying to the ball will not hook. Add in body rotation and you have dead straight shots. How else can he go from a wide open face , right forearm up , palm up to a sq face at impact
So the golf swing is a combination left handed backhand and a right handed forehand. For a right handed golfer. When teaching a backhand in tennis one can sort of visualise the thumb tracing a line through the path of the ball...much as you demonstrated in your video. Much as the illustration in Hogan's book "The Modern Fundamentals" shows. The right hand acts as a forehand in many respects...tennis is merely golf on the run, you see. So...if you follow the path of the right index finger making a line through the path of the ball there you have it. I believe that the visualisation of the left thumb and the right index fingers working together and tracing lines through the path of the swing is a beautiful thing. Speaking through the tennis lens.
Evening Steve, this all makes sense, trouble is getting this fine balance on how bowed must the left hand be at impact?? And also presenting this consistent loft shot after shot, I do, unfortunately, lack in compression and tend to slightly help by lifting the club head at impact, obviously losing loft and therefore distance, at 61 years old 5 handicap, it makes my game tougher as Im losing distance through age gain and lack of flexibility!!
Grab your 6 Iron, pick a Target 1/3 your typical "full 6 Iron yardage", i.e. 150 = 50, 180 = 60. Starting from Shaft Parallel to Ground, hit shots to your "short target" and finish your swing at Shaft Parallel. Focus more on your Hip and Torso turn at first, then start adjusting your Grip and Lead Hand action and remember Steve's focus point of the Bottom of the Lead Forearm leading slightly. The very short Yardage allows you to use a very slow overall swing speed in this drill to sense and ingrain "the Feel". Once you have gained Good Success at 1/3 Yardage, go for Half Distance, more by increasing your Swing Speed slightly rather than Swing Length. The 6 Iron has enough Shaft Length, and Reduced Loft to effect the Ball's initial direction and spin, both Back Spin and Side Spin. Have FUN 😊
@@stevejohnstongolf thank you! I think I understand how. I always interpreted it as a Dustin Johnson type of left wrist bend even at the top of the back swing.
Most difficult thing to do in golf and only pros can do it. It is a magic move and not easy for amateur. I wish there was a simple drill to explain this move,
I read Mr Hogan's book nearly 25 years ago ( I believe it had a sub title of the 5 fundamentals of golf) there is no doubting the man was a total legend. However I think the whole philosophy of how to hit a golf ball has changed tremendously in the past 10 years never mind the last 60. Especially short game. You only need to look at the current crop of players to see there is no correct way to swing a club. Only a certain position just before impact that is constant in most top class players. Needless to say if Mr Hogan was using today's equipment he would have been even more exemplary!
I admire your inspiration Steve, and I really enjoy your videos. But, there is a downside with this old swing technique. The leading wrist is in a very weak position at impact, compared to a stronger/neutral grip. It works very well when the timing is right. But a modern swing with a stronger grip is far superior to the old Hogan swing, and puts less stress on your wrists.
Didn’t he change his swing and grip because in his early years he had a problem hooking the ball. It must have taken a long time practicing to get this ingrained
This may be ok for advanced low handicap golfers but this is overload. You can't teach a 12 year old this nor the average 95 shooter. That said ,the grip is highly important.
The difference between Ben Hogan's teachings and many modern day instructions is that Hogan's instructions actually work, even if, or especially if, you don't have the hand-eye coordination and flexibility of a tour pro. I could give many examples of how Mr. Hogan's teachings have made me a bogey golfer. Many may think that's not too good, which is true, but then again, I'm 70 years old. Good videos. Thanks,
Steve - you are a ginger golfing angel. Thank you for videos
My pleasure
The video explains in a much clearer way than if you are reading the book (which I have been doing for the last 20 years) Thanks so much Steve.
Glad it was helpful!
This series on Hogan has been excellent. Many thanks for this
Brave man at the end hitting balls at the camera.
Great video, thanks. I am a big fan of Ben and Moe Norman, who was also very serious about the feeling of the "lead-hand-below-trail-hand" post impact and Moe hit it very straight
Moe Norman, Lee Trevino, George Knudson, and Ben Hogan all supinated the right forearm(hand)
from top of BS to Impact. Right hand working below left hand from top of BS to impact.
Right hand below left hand all the way.
th-cam.com/video/r5LEelOEbQg/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant Steve , great description of Hogans action.
Thank you for the explanation as by reading the five lessons from hogan is a must to get in a deep to understand the pronation movement.
Great instructions and really helpful. For several years i had the iron 'yips' and whilst fine on the range hopeless on the course. Not helped by being right handed but playing golf as a left hander. Score now coming down and confidence rising. Thanks Steve
Your explanations are always spot on. I especially appreciate finally being able to understand the proper hand position. Thank you
Just wanted to say that I love this series, you are explaining Mr Hogans' swing thoughts so well. I am reading along in the book with each video and it makes everything easier to understand. Keep giving us this great content and I am sure you will blow through 100k subscribers. Cheers.
Steve…been a subscriber for a while now and your content and videos have helped me to be a better ball striker…lets go 100K
Simply put but superbly demonstrated, I’m hooked
Love it! Great series. Thanks so much for putting these together!
Fantastic! What a great explanation and demonstration on the “why” we don’t need a super strong grip!
Funny because when I started Eureka I kept adjusting my grip bit by bit to reduce the hook to a draw instead of closing my stance again. Mine is still a bit stronger than Hogan but we are talking way different skill levels!!!
Thanks Sensei!
Steve…been working on Eureka fundamentals adding the Hogan ideas from your latest videos…had a great ball striking day today…6 pars in a row on the way to 80…great stuff from your instruction…thanks!
This is excellent, just been reading the book and practicing to get the feel, I was struggling with this part and this has made it a bit clearer,, one question I have for anyone still on this video,, why does it feel my shots are all over drawing if I go after it?
Second time I have watched this video, thx. I've been reading Ben Hogan 5 Lessons, it's so much bette,r in color as you say, thanks again. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Richard👍👍
Hogan and Moe Norman the 2 best ball strikers with techniques no one else can master.
Norman himself added Lee Trevino to the list, but Trevino's swing is I think too idiosyncratic for the average amateur.
I will now have an indoor drill with the short weighted club I bought several years ago.....fantastic....
I've been following your Hogan series and it's really starting to pay dividends. I've also introduced a feeling that I'm shortening my backswing and speeding up the takeaway/transition to a more pronounced hip turn/followthrough, this has improved my ball striking significantly. Thanks for these great videos 👍
Great video Steve-many thanks. Is it possible to do another video that shows supination of the left wrist with the driver?
Mr Hogan's book is old enough to have been printed on Caxtons press but it is totally revelent today love it
Thanks so much Steve for the many videos! Love where you're going with the Ben hogan series many golfers out here in amateur land are asking How! Why. And What. Keep watching people's. ps he's not a young pup either apologises Steve laters dashman
You are as good as Hogan was. Thanks a million. It is hard to understand the left wrist action after the impact. At what point of golf swing, left wrist supinates ?
I love all things Hogan SteveO! This particular lesson about the left wrist is particularly illuminating. The problem for me is this...the wrist is a very difficult part of the body to understand what it is doing when it is doing. Know what I mean? The wrist is a conduit. It is merely transferring motion...energy. Hard to visualise in the middle of a swing. The same is true in tennis strokes. But the thumb is not so difficult to trace. In fact...when I saw this video and the illustration from page 102 in my "The Modern Fundamentals of Golf" it was the range of the left thumb that I cued in on immediately. If you do the drill that you are doing in your video and merely focus on the thumb the "feels and reals" easily morph together into a motion. I stood repeatedly doing the Hogan half swing drill with just the left hand and it was a "Eureka Moment". The club was swinging naturally back outside the right shoulder and all I had to do was put my right hand on the grip and there it was. MR. HOGAN. Thanks man!
Cant wait to get down the practice area to try it !
I've been playing for ten years without having a clue about what the hands do through impact. One video and three buckets later I was on plane, hitting the Christmas stuffing out the ball with a flat left wrist. What sort of wizardry is this?! Thank you.
Good video, especially the “evils” of right-over-left wrist roll.
This video is illustrating how to hit a punch shot, left hand leading.
Ben Hogan supinated the right forearm from top of BS to impact.
The left wrist pronated going into impact. Then Ben Hogan pulled (parametric acceleration) the left hand
up and around his left hip after impact, then pronating to his follow through.
Well described indeed….that left wrist is key!
Loving this Steve!!
Great instruction as ever Steve and still great humour 👍😂
VERY helpful, thank you.
This man can teach!
ALWAYS knew HOGAN'S SWING was the BEST but struggled to take it from his BOOK, The 5 FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF and actually replicate it. What I DISCOVERED OVER MY 20 YEARS of playing golf and watching hundreds of Teaching Pros explain Hogan's Swing is that they really were clueless and also THAT the so called Modern Swing was inferior to Ben Hogan's. So, with Ben's book I SET OUT ON MY NEW MISSION to discover the HOLY GRAIL of GOLF, BEN HOGAN'S SWING, discarding as well disregarding all the online and offline experts ( drips under pressure ) Whilst checking out videos of BEN on TH-cam to study, up came THE IMPOSTORS videos of Mr HOGAN AS WELL all explaining what he was doing. Almost at the end of my patience for these impostors, I THOUGHT i would watch one more and confirm my strong conviction and so i proceeded to watch a redheaded scotsman explain THE 5 FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF ! WHAT I FOUND and to my AMAZEMENT was STEVE JOHNSTON demonstrating with clarity and precision BEN'S SWING ! IT'S LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY ! Everyone will improve THAT FOLLOWS STEVE'S INSTRUCTION, but the discerning GOLFER WILL CASH IN !!
If you look at hogan old swing video closely ,the coloured ones the best and even in the book. With his right elbow move. Right forearm to the sky. This lays the shaft down quite a bit and his face is wide open . So when the shaft gets to about hip high he can start to turn the left wrist down . Witch makes it flat at impact with a sq face every-time. I can do this and with my normal swing with trying to the ball will not hook. Add in body rotation and you have dead straight shots. How else can he go from a wide open face , right forearm up , palm up to a sq face at impact
So the golf swing is a combination left handed backhand and a right handed forehand. For a right handed golfer. When teaching a backhand in tennis one can sort of visualise the thumb tracing a line through the path of the ball...much as you demonstrated in your video. Much as the illustration in Hogan's book "The Modern Fundamentals" shows. The right hand acts as a forehand in many respects...tennis is merely golf on the run, you see. So...if you follow the path of the right index finger making a line through the path of the ball there you have it. I believe that the visualisation of the left thumb and the right index fingers working together and tracing lines through the path of the swing is a beautiful thing. Speaking through the tennis lens.
I don't practice this. I just try it in a round. It was almost instant better strike,especially with my irons. Give me a lot of satisfaction,so thanks
The comment “hips square the clubface” is a wonderful swing thought. 👍🏼
Evening Steve, this all makes sense, trouble is getting this fine balance on how bowed must the left hand be at impact?? And also presenting this consistent loft shot after shot, I do, unfortunately, lack in compression and tend to slightly help by lifting the club head at impact, obviously losing loft and therefore distance, at 61 years old 5 handicap, it makes my game tougher as Im losing distance through age gain and lack of flexibility!!
Grab your 6 Iron, pick a Target 1/3 your typical "full 6 Iron yardage", i.e. 150 = 50, 180 = 60.
Starting from Shaft Parallel to Ground, hit shots to your "short target" and finish your swing at Shaft Parallel.
Focus more on your Hip and Torso turn at first, then start adjusting your Grip and Lead Hand action and remember Steve's focus point of the Bottom of the Lead Forearm leading slightly.
The very short Yardage allows you to use a very slow overall swing speed in this drill to sense and ingrain "the Feel".
Once you have gained Good Success at 1/3 Yardage, go for Half Distance, more by increasing your Swing Speed slightly rather than Swing Length.
The 6 Iron has enough Shaft Length, and Reduced Loft to effect the Ball's initial direction and spin, both Back Spin and Side Spin.
Have FUN 😊
@@apaulmcdonough2170 Cheers will try it , nice!
Help i felt the sweetness of supination with my irons but topping my driver now!
What happened to the uncocking of the wrist and rotating the forearms?
Hi Steve. Isn’t there a lot of “timing” involved in this to get it right…?
Funny when you laugh at yourself after a good shot . Like it's your first time 👌 . Interesting stuff mate
How do I get my left wrist to suppinate through contact on a full speed swing?
Use your right hand and body rotate
Rotation
@@stevejohnstongolf thank you! I think I understand how. I always interpreted it as a Dustin Johnson type of left wrist bend even at the top of the back swing.
If you really want to see Hogan's Changes, get a copy of *his first book, "Power Golf".* Read It and then compare It to "5 Lessons."
Most difficult thing to do in golf and only pros can do it. It is a magic move and not easy for amateur. I wish there was a simple drill to explain this move,
I read Mr Hogan's book nearly 25 years ago ( I believe it had a sub title of the 5 fundamentals of golf) there is no doubting the man was a total legend. However I think the whole philosophy of how to hit a golf ball has changed tremendously in the past 10 years never mind the last 60. Especially short game. You only need to look at the current crop of players to see there is no correct way to swing a club. Only a certain position just before impact that is constant in most top class players. Needless to say if Mr Hogan was using today's equipment he would have been even more exemplary!
Thats like comparing Steve SUMNER to PELE
I apologize😁 - Trail hand below Lead hand feeling
Weak grip. I need to be more conversant. Thanx for the intel. I will work on it.
👍🙌👏
I admire your inspiration Steve, and I really enjoy your videos. But, there is a downside with this old swing technique. The leading wrist is in a very weak position at impact, compared to a stronger/neutral grip. It works very well when the timing is right. But a modern swing with a stronger grip is far superior to the old Hogan swing, and puts less stress on your wrists.
Didn’t he change his swing and grip because in his early years he had a problem hooking the ball. It must have taken a long time practicing to get this ingrained
Find a copy of Hogan's FIRST book,
*"Power Golf".*
Compare this to *"5 Lessons"* and his changes become very apparent.
This may be ok for advanced low handicap golfers but this is overload. You can't teach a 12 year old this nor the average 95 shooter. That said ,the grip is highly important.