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I realise that VJ believes that Hogan got most of his body weight onto his left foot at the end-backswing and that he therefore didn't have to shift-rotate his pelvis left-laterally during the downswing. I, however, am not convinced by the evidence provided in his book.

Here is a photo sequence of Hogan's downswing.



I placed red lines on the outer border of Hogan's pelvis at the end-backswing (after he shifted his pelvis to the left during the late backswing).

The series of images demonstrates that Hogan still had a large left-lateral shift of his pelvis during the downswing.

Jeff.

Jeff . . . Not a knock on you but I think we have to be careful about picking sequences and saying . . "Yo! This is what Hogan did!" You can find sequences to support exactly what VJ says about Hogan's pivot . .. and obviously from the sequence you reference above we can see he DIDN'T do the VJ deal too. There are people who say . . . "Hogan's shoulders were X degrees open at impact." If you look at the footage in the Ben Hogan Collection you can find footage where his shoulders are square to closed . ..

The point of all this . . . Hogan did whatever he needed to do to create the desired ball flight . . . but one thing you can see pretty consistently in Hogan is lots of #3 angle and a club that swings IN and ON PLANE quickly after low point . . . I think that is a BIG piece of the "Secret."