thefuture37
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that was Hogan's problem, unfortunately. he never could master the fact that golf includes the green also...
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that was Hogan's problem, unfortunately. he never could master the fact that golf includes the green also...
birdie_man
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I've read that he was a great putter in his earlier days.
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Danny Lee Harmonized?!?! Egad!!
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Danny Lee Harmonized?!?! Egad!!
aaron_lohan
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Very true, Hogan's putting started deteriorating in 1953 when he was 41 up to then he had been an excellent putter.
thefuture37
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golf is a cruel game. when he could putt he couldnt ballstrike, then when he was the GOAT of ballstriking, he couldn't putt!
Richie3Jack
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And Mike Austin. There's others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
It appears that Hogan basically gathered as much info as he could by golfers/instructors whom he thought knew what they were talking about and then filtered bits and pieces of it and took all of the good stuff and put it into his swing.
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Richie3Jack
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Byron Nelson said that Hogan was an excellent putter for most of his career and before the yips he would go months at a time without missing any putt inside 5 feet. Might be a tall tale, but most from that era concur that Hogan could putt before he got the yips.
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thefuture37
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this HAS to have come up before sometime in this forum, but Brian's views change sometimes in light of new information, so I'd like to hear from him if he believes there was anything unique to hogan's swing,mechanistically speaking only(no talk of his mental game), that made him a better ball striker than anyone else.
birdie_man
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Great question.
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