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And it's probably been asked a hundred times and answered just as often...but here goes anyway. Besides, I'm a little bored and figured someone else on the forum might be bored too.
First, a long winded disclaimer. I know just enough about the golf swing to screw myself up. I grew up swinging the club without giving how I did it, a second thought. Then right after college I got to attend a Dave Pelz short game school in Austin Texas and that probably did me more harm than good. I started tinkering with my putting and then my swing, and I got pretty messed up. I've been sort of lost ever since. I have honestly quit reading any swing theories or fixes. I just let Brian tell me what to do. I don't need to know why. I just want the ball to go where I want it to go as often as humanly possible. The less I think about my golf swing...the better.
So, on with the show.
I was looking at some of my swings from 2009. I had a bunch saved from when I was getting ready for the mid-am qualifier. I use CSwing to video and play back. My CSwing software came with a bunch of pros swings and I had never bothered to look at till this past weekend. The weather was terrible and I was trapped indoors with nothing to do.
Anyway, I also had some footage of Hogan and I thought it would be cool to put them in CSwing and see how they looked.
I was stunned.
Here's my question (apologies again if this is common knowledge)
How is it that when looking from behind and down the line, Hogan returns his club exactly to his address position at impact while EVERY other golfer in my library has his hands higher with the club drooping down? Some of them are a LOT higher. "I'm" higher at impact, although not as high as some other pros.
Obviously his hands are farther forward at impact but they are at the same height as they were at address. His club shaft angle at impact matches the club shaft angle at address. How the heck does he accomplish this feat? Doesn't the toe droop some on all iron shots? Is this something that is so out of the ordinary that only Hogan did it? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill here?
And finally, what would Hogan's swing numbers look like on a Trackman?
First, a long winded disclaimer. I know just enough about the golf swing to screw myself up. I grew up swinging the club without giving how I did it, a second thought. Then right after college I got to attend a Dave Pelz short game school in Austin Texas and that probably did me more harm than good. I started tinkering with my putting and then my swing, and I got pretty messed up. I've been sort of lost ever since. I have honestly quit reading any swing theories or fixes. I just let Brian tell me what to do. I don't need to know why. I just want the ball to go where I want it to go as often as humanly possible. The less I think about my golf swing...the better.
So, on with the show.
I was looking at some of my swings from 2009. I had a bunch saved from when I was getting ready for the mid-am qualifier. I use CSwing to video and play back. My CSwing software came with a bunch of pros swings and I had never bothered to look at till this past weekend. The weather was terrible and I was trapped indoors with nothing to do.
Anyway, I also had some footage of Hogan and I thought it would be cool to put them in CSwing and see how they looked.
I was stunned.
Here's my question (apologies again if this is common knowledge)
How is it that when looking from behind and down the line, Hogan returns his club exactly to his address position at impact while EVERY other golfer in my library has his hands higher with the club drooping down? Some of them are a LOT higher. "I'm" higher at impact, although not as high as some other pros.
Obviously his hands are farther forward at impact but they are at the same height as they were at address. His club shaft angle at impact matches the club shaft angle at address. How the heck does he accomplish this feat? Doesn't the toe droop some on all iron shots? Is this something that is so out of the ordinary that only Hogan did it? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill here?
And finally, what would Hogan's swing numbers look like on a Trackman?