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| |  | Golf Books | Home » » The Fundamentals of Hogan | | | | | | | Description: | | More than a half century after he began his professional career, Ben Hogan is still considered the purest striker of a golf ball in the history of the game. His was a swing honed to perfection, and teaching professionals agree that Hogan's technique is the perfect platform on which golfers of all skill levels can build a fundamental understanding of golf. Unfortunately, photographs of Hogan's full swing and detailed close-ups of his grip and positioning have never been available for analysis. Instructors from around the world have always begun with a serious handicap when explaining to their students how a man of average stature could generate exceptional power and control from tee to green.
Now, thanks to the newly discovered critical photography featured in this book, the mysteries of Ben Hogan's form are revealed.
One vital characteristic of David Leadbetter's teaching philosophy, which has made him the world's #1 teacher, is his ability to translate very difficult swing concepts into easy-to-understand language. When the lost photographs from Hogan's seminal instructional manual, Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf, were discovered by the Hogan estate, David Leadbetter was the immediate and perfect choice to craft the quintessential instruction book for today's golfer, based on the Hogan form. By combining his exceptional skills as a communicator and his encyclopedic knowledge of the mechanics of golf, Leadbetter uses these remarkable images of the master at work to demonstrate the basic techniques of golf.
The result is The Fundamentals of Hogan, the one book that all golfers who dream of breaking 80 need to have in their libraries. Golf's #1 professional instructor translates Ben Hogan's fundamentals for players of all skill levels | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| David Leadbetter | | Hardcover:
| 144 pages | | Publisher:
| Doubleday | | Publication Date:
| November 07, 2000 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0385502109 | | Package Length:
| 10.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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 Are you Hogan????Jan 07, 2008
This is a great book. Leadbetter explains Hogan's 5 fundamentals expertly and why Hogan did it this way. Hogan had unique problems to him, mainly a horrible duck hook, a problem that 99 percent of the golfing population does not have. Most people are better off NOT following Hogan word for word, especially if you are a banana ball slicer. Leadbetter realized this from spending most of his life on a range and giving thousands of lessons. He realizes that most golfers need the opposite of what Hogan teaches!
It's like Harvey Penick told a student that wanted to learn how to swing like Hogan: Penick said he couldn't teach genius. Out of the millions that have tried to do it like the master, none that I know have made it.
I read 5 fundamentals when I first started playing 15 years ago and I struggled. Once I read the Golf Swing by Leadbetter and watched some of his DVD's and applied them to my game, I evenually got down to scratch. After reading F of Hogan, I realized why it was a struggle for me to follow it's teachings.
This book is written with great care by a true student and lover of the game. It is beautifully illustrated and well worth the time to read it. We can all learn form Lead.
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Surprised by the ClarityJan 22, 2007
I've never been a big fan of either Hogan or Leadbetter. For me, Hogan's ideas always seemed too narrow and dogmatic, tailored to his own unique swing and talent. This is the best thing I have ever seen by Leadbetter, and this is the clearest take on Hogan's ideas I have run across. It's a very entertaining read, and it offers lots of good ideas for the recreational golfer who also is a student of the game.
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Hogan De-mystifiedNov 10, 2006
For those are fans of Hogan's masterpiece the Five Fundemantals this book is a must. Leadbetter is able to explain in simpler terms what Hogan was getting at. Leadbetter also explains some of the fallicies in Hogan's earlier work. Hogan did not have the benfit of video tape so what he believed he was doing with his swing and what he was actually doing was different. Anyone who enjoyed or benefited from Hogan's original book should pick this up as a companion piece.
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An Ultimate Guide for the Serious Student of the SwingJul 29, 2006
This is an indepth analysis and interpretation of Hogan's perspective of the golf swing by the best modern teacher alive today. Leadbetter's view clarifies and adjusts Hogan's teachings to modern times eloquently. This book is not for the faint of heart wishing to better understand the essential and detailed bio-mechanics of the golf swing. I would suggest his other books and/or DVD's to get started.
With respect, I disagree with Mr. Leadbetter's thoughts on Hogan's own hooking remedies, his grip changes and the "secret" cupping of the wrist to open the club face at the top. Early in Hogan's career he had an extremely long backswing, prompted by an extremely long hip turn. The result coming down was a very active lower body to compensate for a latent upper body. The club face would arrive from the outside and closed causing the snap-hook under pressure he hated. As his swing became more compact he was able to control it's action much better. D.L. touches on this but emphasizes the different grip and the wrist cupping as Hogan's "cure".
I also disagree with D.L.'s thoughts on moving the head back laterally with longer clubs. It's OK as long as it returns to the same position at address. Just another unnecessary variable IMHO. The head is the fulcrum of the swing. Keep it there.
Don't buy this thinking you'll find "lightening in a bottle". The golf swing takes study, focus and discipline to learn how to properly execute. As Hogan believed, anyone can break 80, even if they devote one-tenth the time he did to being one of the greatest students of the swing and players of all time.
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 Read only the parts on HoganJul 27, 2006
This a fantastic book for pictures of Hogan demonstrating his swing techniques taken for the illustrations in the "Five Lessons". Leadbetter makes a very detailed analysis of Hogan's swing and some interesting observations between what Hogan said in his book and how he actually swung. A must for every Hogan fan.
However, as soon as Leadbetter starts giving his own "My Views", watch out. In "The Plane Truth for Golfers", Jim Hardy differentiates between the one plane (Hogan, Snead) and the two plane (Leadbetter). All of Leadbetter views on how to improve on Hogan's swing are two plane ideas which Hardy points out are disastrous for the one plane swing. Read Five Lessons and this book for Hogan's swing and forget all the sections labelled "My Views" or you will be swinging the golf club like David Leadbetter, not like Ben Hogan!
5 stars for Ben Hogan; 3 stars for David Leadbetter.
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