Sam Snead Swing Montage

Snead

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[emncaity]

But to say that "no one with any knowledge of Hogan said he had a great swing" is just wrong. You can say _you_ don't think he had a great swing and have reasons for saying so, but certainly a ton of first-rate teachers and great players who had "knowledge of Hogan" thought Hogan "had a great swing"--which, again, is not to say that it was flawless.

OTOH, if your point is just hyperbole about the fact that some people seem to make too much a god out of Hogan...I'd agree. He would too.

[emncaity]

I absolutely love Snead and can't understand why he hasn't become at least as much a model for people as Hogan was. Maybe it's because Hogan gave them more to chew on, with the mechanical details. If you tell people "Hey, folks, it isn't all that complicated, you just have to get a feel for it, very few real fundamentals, etc.," it seems like your instructional dollars aren't really going for anything.

[fradaja]

Respond to this video... answer this one question honestly, have you ever tried to hit the ball softer and its gone further?

[fradaja]

@emncaity B S

[fradaja]

@emncaity i am 5'7" and 160ibs and regulary outdrive guys much bigger than me i "NEVER" think about arms or hands i simply set my angles and turn not "lunge" as i see regularly, think about tiger's huge sweep,and why has he got the fastest hips in golf??? there nearly as fast as his shoulders!!! TORQUE!!! created by the mass of his very athletic form involving ever muscle from his feet up!

[fradaja]

@emncaity velocity x mass=momentum it is momentum which sends a ball, or any object! the arms simply connect the object to the body,where the mass is try sitting in a chair and see how far you throw a ball?? then stand up and try.........i rest my case!

[fradaja]

@emncaity sorry but this is contrary to what snead say's in another video,you can acheive extra clubhead speed by using the arms and wrist's but at a risk to accuracy!

[fradaja]

@emncaity does this refer to the time when after 4 duck-hooks off the tea, at wentworth, Hogan snapped "Sam will you put that goddam driver away" in which he duly did so!! also would you advise a beginner to use his arms and wrist's to strike a ball?? when this is the single most common fault with beginners? i believe that anyone can play golf to a decent standard! sam snead was an absolute natural with no clue as to how he did it! where Hogan new exactly what he was doing!!

[emncaity]

@fradaja

I see this really often among young competitive players who are overtrained. All the parts look good, the "positions" look good, the turn looks trained, etc., but the shots are lifeless, and/or there's no sense for distance.

For Snead's part, he was famous for saying "turn and burn." No lifeless picking up the arms and dropping the club on the ball for him. As for Hogan, part of the problem is that modern theorists have overinterpreted and overelaborated on what he actually said.

[emncaity]

@fradaja

I've seen people make mistakes both ways, but currently what I see much more often is the guy who drives the body, labors with his torso, etc., but has no swinging motion and no snap at the bottom of the arc, so you see this big heaving "big-muscle" motion and no power at all.

[emncaity]

@fradaja

...your torso and legs will make a kind of gentle move to support the low-energy swing. But if you try to hit home plate from left field, nobody has to tell you to wind up your shoulders, step into the throw, unload in a big way from the ground up--but the whole point is again to get to the swing of the arm and snap of the hand, without which all that power generated in the trunk and legs is wasted. Some people feel it one way, some another. But what actually happens doesn't change.

[emncaity]

@fradaja

I've seen Ralph Mann make the same misguided criticisms of the "arms and hands" school. Guys like Snead, Toski, Flick, etc. will tell you every time that the rest of the body MUST be involved. It's not that hard to understand how these two apparently extreme views really are just two aspects of how people feel a swing. If you're athletic at all, and you try to throw a baseball 20 yards, you'll feel the swinging motion of your arm and the release of your hand, but...