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Hogan Laying off the club in transition

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• Hogan
• laying
• off
• golf
• swing

[hacking2229]

Dick!! How can anyone lay off the club on purpose in transition. You clearly have no idea how the golf swing works!! It's just a look he gets when he drops his arms in to the hitting area

[golfbulldog]

"hitting area" is incorrect terminology - he is nowhere near the "hitting area" in these images - "slot" I would buy. Many players drop their arms into the "slot" but few have the same effect on the clubface as Hogan demonstrates here. Have you read John Schlee's book "Maximum Golf" - he describes the transition move as "the world class move" and he quotes Hogan as describing it as "laying off the club". But then what did they know...(Pg69-70 if you want to look it up).

[Makkaer1111]

@Makkaer1111 Obviously not as successfully



[Makkaer1111]

I feel like I do this

[thatwilldonicely]

looks very like what Garcia does? wasn't Hogan's simply a flat swing with his grip ensuring the club face was slightly open at impact? So he could hit the ball as hard as he wished and hit a high mid/long iron that landed softly, the shot that all the greats played( of course in those days they hit more long iron/mid iron shots

[mrjamesgrimes]

That is not a laid off position at the top, it right down the line

[jbplunkett1]

Interesting. I have struggled for 40 years trying to integrate Hogan's release at the top of his wrist twist going back and the amazing flat plane coming down.  Wouldn't it be nice, if there were a robotic golf swing trainer that moved the club in 6 axis while one is griping the handle that could mimic Hogan's swing frame by frame both in slow motion and progressively faster to Hogan's real time speed including hitting a ball. I have the patent and 2 half finished prototypes.

[nsaminder]

Basically it's just dropping your elbow into your side (Abe Mitchell) without activating the shoulder turn yet (much) at the top, while your weight transfer to your forward foot and forward hip (lower body) start things off. This allows you to keep your forward shoulder over the ball longer while your lower body starts to clear - meaning that the 'lay off' simply re-positions your arc for the correct (forward) swing plane but leaves your spine tilt the same. Less correction is needed, if any.

[bluetiege]

He's moving his wrist from a cupped position at the top of the swing to a flat wrist position. That's one of his swing keys even though he only talked about the lead wrist supinated at impact. Go to the top of your backswing with your left wrist in a cupped position. Now flatten your wrist from the cupped position to where your wrist is flat. What happens? Your club and trailing elbow both go lower and the club is laid off as your upper body begins its part of the downswing.

[10splitter]

It looks incredibly powerful and obviously it worked beautifully for him but few of the rest of us could pull it off successfully...