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Videos of Ben Hogan demonstrating the Back and Forth motion as each of his elbows bend through Release, belies the fact that the Horizontal Hinge was part of his overall Swing. Hogans Left Hand Thumb position lends credible evidence of his Horizontal Hinge.

Hogan placed his Thumb on-top of the Grip. So, by following the motion of his Thumb, we can better understand the Alignment of his Flat Left Wrist through Impact.

In the above illustration, pictures #1&2 show his Thumb to be On Plane during Release. Picture #3 is midway of his Sequenced Release Roll. Picture #4 is inches before Impact and his Left Thumb is On Top and above the Grip and His Left Wrist is Vertical to the Ground (the Ground, in this case, is the "Associated Horizontal Plane").

Pictures #5 illustrates that his Left Thumb remains "above" his Clubs Grip through Impact and Follow-Through. This corrects the misinterpretation that Hogan continuously Swiveled his Left Wrist through Impact as his video demonstrations leads one to interpret. Hogans Left Wrist remains Perpendicular to the Horizontal Plane at least until Both Arms Straight at the End of Follow-Through. That defines the "Horizontal Hinge".

Questions remain. Because he entered the Release area with a Bent Left Wrist, "Did he purposefully Arch his Left Wrist" to prevent a continuous Roll which thereby allowed the Horizontal Hinge?



(High Resolution scan from "Five Lessons", page 102)

Do you think Hogan was archy prior to his "change" when he was terrorizing field mice? I haven't done the analysis but it'd be interesting to see his Top wrist alignments comparitively. You can clearly see in this drawing that he is going from "cupped" Bent to Arched "supinated" Palmer Flexed or whatever the heck you wanna call it. It'd also be interesting to know what kind of lie angles his clubs had prior to the "change" . . . everybody says that his clubs were like 6 flat and bent open.










CLEARLY NOT DOING THE AMOUNT OF TURNING PER 5 LESSONS . . . AT LEAST EARLY . . . . BACKING INTO THE BALL