Ben Hogan interesting hand action slow motion and frame-by-frame

Ben Hogan hand action in driver at 1950 US Open playoff.

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[maxfiglio]

@emncaity

I've not heard that. I heard had to purposely cup the left wrist -it was not automatic. If he didn't want a fade, he swung normally and didn't manipulate his hands. I also heard he taught that if you want to know what the hands do during the backswing, simply pick up the clubhead vertically from an address position, and that's all. Looks like he's definitely fanning the club open right from the start here

I would perfect a swing w/o hand action first, then see where to go from there.

[emncaity]

@maxfiglio

Stop me if you've heard this already, but: Hogan himself said he wanted to rotate the club distinctly so it would be on plane early in the backswing, which of course meant that hands and forearms would work "independently" in the sense of doing something in addition to the turn (as opposed to the oversimplistic notion of "body swing" in which the hands and arms supposedly do literally zero and are literally 100% "passive"). In other words, you're dead right, according to Hogan.

[maxfiglio]

I've skimmed this video many times, but only now actually watched closely at the two or three frames at the moment of takeaway. It appears the hands rotate the shaft clockwise. I would be careful to read too much into this. Hogan took the club back abruptly, as many greats did. I've seen video and pics that show the shaft clearly flexing upon takeaway. It's as though he throws, or flings the club back, to start in one unified impulse, leather first, which may result in the action seen here.