Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons
Timothy E. Sick Calgary After reading the first two articles, I had a 73 for the first time in my life, and hadn’t played for six months before that.
Frank Sadler Professional, Bellingham Country Club, Bellingham, Washington It’s the first time words and illustrations have made golfing technique absolutely clear. I’m applying the lessons to my teaching program here and highly recommending them to my pupils. I’d say it’s the greatest instruction series of all time. Women are particularly keen on it. It’ll make a lot of new golfers — good golfers.
The Grip
GOOD GOLF BEGINS WITH A GOOD GRIP. This statement, I realize, packs as much explosive punch as announcing the startling fact that the battery in baseball is composed of a pitcher and a catcher. Moreover, for most golfers the grip is the drabbest part of the swing. There’s no glamour to it. They see it accomplishing nothing active, nothing decisive. On the other hand, for myself and other serious golfers there is an undeniable beauty in the way a fine player sets his hands on the club. Walter Hagen, for instance, had a beautiful grip, delicate and at the same time powerful. It always looked to me as if Hagen’s hands had been especially designed to fit on a golf club. Of the younger players today, Jack Burke gets his hands on the club very handsomely. No doubt a professional golfer’s admiration for an impressive grip comes from his knowledge that, far from being a static “still life” sort of thing, the grip is the heartbeat of the action of the golf swing.
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- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone (September 20, 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780671612979
- ISBN-13: 978-0671612979
- ASIN: 0671612972
- Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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