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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."

Well in my opinion he is making a lateral shift in his backswing ala the VJ book and it may certainly have felt to Hogan that he just "cleared" his hips but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that some right side participation will indeed shift the hips forward somewhat whilst rotating