What a beautiful swing. I can watch this all day long. What a lot of people don’t know, is that he played with bandages from his hips to his knees, after his accident in 1949. He suffered pain, and circulatory problems for the rest of his life.
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful old film! This is such a classic film showing not only a master, Mr. Hogan, and his legendary golf swing, but a thoughtful interview by Fr. Keller talking about life and its challenges and getting oneself around the course of life and through each "hole" or difficulty. Mr. Hogan almost died in a terrible automobile crash, but Fr. wanted to get his thoughts about making such a great comeback against great adversity. A wonderful slice of the culture and humor of those early times of TV and talking movie films. So cool to see Bob Hope and Bing Crosby too. I had never seen this before so thanks again for uploading this to youTube! When I was a young teenager and an avid junior golfer, I met Bob Hope at the L.A. Open (late 1970's) and he signed the inside cover of my cherished Ben Hogan book, The Five Fundamentals of Golf. I also got two other golfers to sign it that day: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. A great memory in my life. I still reread that book every year to keep improving my golf game! ( More info about Fr. Keller, who started the Christopher Movement after WWII, can be found here: www.christophers.org/Page.aspx?pid=267 )
It's amazing to think of how challenging it was for Hogan to comeback from the bus accident, but few know about how difficult his life was from childhood. When you know this and his struggles as a child, then as a young pro surviving the depression. Most of the world today wants to crawl into a hole if someone says a bad ting about them on Facebook. Imagine being a child and watching your father commit suicide. Then having to sell newspapers to help the family survive. Struggling as a young pro, when the professional tour was just to justify a decent club job. Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan started what we know as the Professional Tour. Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus took it to a place where people wanted to watch it on TV. "Hogan" by Curt Sampson is an amazing look into a very complicated and fragile human being that so many of us golfers admire and rightfully so. He was an amazing individual and a flawed man, just like so many of us hackers. Here's to Ben Hogan. I aspire to be.
Who wouldn't have wanted to have seen a match between Hogan, Nicklaus, and Tiger. If they only could have played in the same era with the same advantages, what a match it would have been.
That one went about 220. How the modern ball and clubs have ruined the game. Thats why 5 pars are so easy for the pros to reach today, and why they need 500 yard 4 pars.
very noticeable how much control he is applying with his right arm in the downswing, when he does the slow mo drill. probably more important to focus on the left side of the forearm, rather than the elbow.
The slow swing is great. though very different from the coleman slow swings and the concentration drill in front of the small crowd. Obvious arms coming down & away faster from chest from start of downswing, hips not as open as the shell lesson. Seems he intends to supinate left wrist a lot from P5 to P6 to go from cupped to slightly bowed and does (needs) very little forearm rotation through impact zone. Or because of frame loss / poor quality, Hogan could be rolling both hands at the wrist anti-clockwise to get the supination (instead of supinating by L hand flexion, R Hand extension) from P6 to through impact his feel is moving arms & body together at the same rate.
What a beautiful swing. I can watch this all day long.
What a lot of people don’t know, is that he played with bandages from his hips to his knees, after his accident in 1949. He suffered pain, and circulatory problems for the rest of his life.
Great wholesome interview with lots of life lessons. What a much more respectful simpler time than the breakdown of society and immortality today
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful old film! This is such a classic film showing not only a master, Mr. Hogan, and his legendary golf swing, but a thoughtful interview by Fr. Keller talking about life and its challenges and getting oneself around the course of life and through each "hole" or difficulty. Mr. Hogan almost died in a terrible automobile crash, but Fr. wanted to get his thoughts about making such a great comeback against great adversity. A wonderful slice of the culture and humor of those early times of TV and talking movie films. So cool to see Bob Hope and Bing Crosby too. I had never seen this before so thanks again for uploading this to youTube! When I was a young teenager and an avid junior golfer, I met Bob Hope at the L.A. Open (late 1970's) and he signed the inside cover of my cherished Ben Hogan book, The Five Fundamentals of Golf. I also got two other golfers to sign it that day: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. A great memory in my life. I still reread that book every year to keep improving my golf game! ( More info about Fr. Keller, who started the Christopher Movement after WWII, can be found here: www.christophers.org/Page.aspx?pid=267 )
totally awesome...love of god and country..
What a beautiful swing.
Superb. Thanks for uploading this video
It's amazing to think of how challenging it was for Hogan to comeback from the bus accident, but few know about how difficult his life was from childhood. When you know this and his struggles as a child, then as a young pro surviving the depression. Most of the world today wants to crawl into a hole if someone says a bad ting about them on Facebook. Imagine being a child and watching your father commit suicide. Then having to sell newspapers to help the family survive. Struggling as a young pro, when the professional tour was just to justify a decent club job. Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan started what we know as the Professional Tour. Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus took it to a place where people wanted to watch it on TV. "Hogan" by Curt Sampson is an amazing look into a very complicated and fragile human being that so many of us golfers admire and rightfully so. He was an amazing individual and a flawed man, just like so many of us hackers. Here's to Ben Hogan. I aspire to be.
The sequence from 8:22 forward tells so much about Hogan's secret. Carefully watch the downswing and his hands.
That was cool. Thanks for posting that.
amen to Mr Hogan and Ft Keller!
A great video that lets you learn what Ben Hogans real secret was,as Ben says 70% of his game was the Mental side 30% swing.
8:26 - right knee kick-in swing trigger noticed in slo-mo, went back and it's there on the waggle and to start all of his swings.
He marshalled every bit of his strength to hit those drives.
Who wouldn't have wanted to have seen a match between Hogan, Nicklaus, and Tiger.
If they only could have played in the same era with the same advantages, what a match it would have been.
That one went about 220. How the modern ball and clubs have ruined the game. Thats why 5 pars are so easy for the pros to reach today, and why they need 500 yard 4 pars.
Hogan was joking about the ball travelling 220 yards. His dry humor strikes again.
Ruined the game? So stupid!
It looks to me like his focus from the top was to get his right elbow in front of his right hip before driving through with his right leg.
very noticeable how much control he is applying with his right arm in the downswing, when he does the slow mo drill. probably more important to focus on the left side of the forearm, rather than the elbow.
The slow swing is great. though very different from the coleman slow swings and the concentration drill in front of the small crowd.
Obvious arms coming down & away faster from chest from start of downswing, hips not as open as the shell lesson.
Seems he intends to supinate left wrist a lot from P5 to P6 to go from cupped to slightly bowed and does (needs) very little forearm rotation through impact zone. Or because of frame loss / poor quality, Hogan could be rolling both hands at the wrist anti-clockwise to get the supination (instead of supinating by L hand flexion, R Hand extension)
from P6 to through impact his feel is moving arms & body together at the same rate.
Says a lot about the quality of Ben's golf when a priest gets tips from Ben instead of his boss :)
cause Ben is God.
Is this the only video on youtube where you can see where the club actually is?
Yes I can see that,not... 😅
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He could have been a sports psychologist
A what ?
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