The Last Word on Hogan’s Swing?

Truth be told, there will probably never be a ‘last word’ on Ben Hogan’s swing. As long as people play this game there will be speculation and unquenched curiosity about one of the game’s greatest and most mysterious players. There’s a new book – Tom Bertrand’s ‘The Secret of Hogan’s Swing’ – that is the best I’ve ever encountered on Hogan’s fundamentals.

If you are a golf swing student and/or a Hogan fan, then you need to read this book whether you ever incorporate Hogan’s style into your game or not. It’s straightforward and easy to read with just enough photos to get key points across but not confuse. If you’ve read any Hogan biographies, I guarantee you’ll find some new and interesting nuggets about him as well.

The first portion of the book sums up Hogan’s swing secrets as taught to one of the few golfers to ever break into Hogan’s inner-circle, namely John Schlee. Schlee was a tour player who came in second and almost beat Johnny Miller at Oakmont when he shot his famous 63 in the final round. Unfortunately, that was the high point of his professional career. He spent most of his life afterwards learning Hogan’s trade secrets from the master himself and trying to teach them to anyone who was interested via his Maximum Golf School.

The book’s author, Tom Bertrand, spent seven years as Schlee’s right hand man, and uses the middle portion of the book to chronicle John’s life as it was inextricably linked with Ben Hogan and his famous swing philosophy. Bertrand ability to shed new light on Hogan’s swing couldn’t have been accomplished without chronicling Schlee’s life for it’s his private relationship with Hogan that uncovers ‘the missing link’.

The last section of the book is a great instructional piece on how to learn and incorporate Hogan’s swing thoughts into your own game. It’s not as complicated as you may have been lead to believe. It also sheds the most light I think we’ll ever get to what swing ‘secrets’ or ‘missing links’ Hogan unearthed in his relentless search for perfection. His tee to green stats are probably the best of any golfer that ever played the game, so no one should take his ideas on the swing lightly.

I’ve read a lot of golf books in the last years and this one goes right to the top of the list as a ‘must read’ if you are a student of Ben Hogan and/or the basic fundamentals of the full swing. The instructional part is not hard to understand. Tom Bertrand, who worked with Printer Bowler to write this book, has done a masterful job of focusing on what’s important and then saying it simply and clearly.

I found this book fascinating, for it’s insights into the golf swing, new information on Hogan’s Secret and the unusually poignant story of John Schlee’s life long journey through the world of golf. In this book we once and for all are shown everything there is to be known about Hogan’s swing. The instruction part alone is worth the price of the book many times over, whether you ever try to swing just like Hogan or not. There are fundamentals here that any swing method has to http://www.thesecretofhogansswing.com/://www.thesecretofhogansswing.com/Me, I’m already working on Bertrand’s ideas and think there’s some gold to be ‘dug out of the dirt!’ I’ll let you know in a couple of months if I’veThe Last Word on Hogan’s Swing?had any success. Stay tuned for that,http://www.thesecretofhogansswing.com/but in the meantime read the book and check out Bertrand’s Legendary Golf System!

Related posts:

1. Hogan’s Sweet Swing
2. Out of Position Right Knee in the Golf Swing
3. Game Changing Swing
4. Today’s Best Full Swing Instruction
5. Swing Keys vs Swing Thought

If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.