dave.
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- Mar 20, 2005
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I posted this in another forum and thought I would share it here,these pics are from an out of print book
And my fave,does this remind you of anyone? Tiger hits these shots now all the time,this was Hogan's follow through with the hold off,identical to Tiger's.
And some quotes from the book
2 quotes from Ken Venturi,who knew Hogan as a player as well as anyone;
When discussing Hogan's lag;
"Hogan held this angle as long as possible.If he used some of the flexible shafts of today,with the amount of force and power he generated,the shaft would flex way to much.Because of this position,he wouldn't use a shaft with any flex,it had to be very stiff."
And when asked about Hogan's clubs;
"No one ever played with as stiff a driver as Hogan.HE HAD THE STIFFEST SHAFT OF ANYONE THAT EVER PLAYED (my caps).Its hard to believe that someone could play with a driver that stiff.He had an extra stiff shaft that was tipped.The first step on the shaft was just above the whipping! I never saw anyhting like it in my life! I tried to hit it once and it went dead right.His irons were a D0 to D2 and his driver about a D7"
So,I think its fair to say his irons were very stiff,and his driver was very,very,very stiff
And;
"I remember vividly the time Lanny Wadkins and I,on a visit to Shady Oaks,watched Hogan hit some 3 irons,and then some 4 woods.Lanny,one of the best ball strikers I have seen,and I sat spell-bound,bith of us amazed at the force he could generate through impact.
For me,that will be the last impression I have of Hogan,how he tore into and through each shot,with his power and force and authority and you KNEW the ball had to obey his command and streak like a laser to the target.I've never seen a ball hit like that,or heard shots that sounded like that,before or since.It was sound unique to Hogan.
Two other images stand out in my mind.First,the very wide,sweeping arc of his backswing,and second,how active his hands and wrists were as he just literally burned up shot after shot,ball after ball buzzing out there all on the same trajectory.When I say 'buzzing',I mean it.I swear as the ball left the club on those 3 irons we could hear the ball buzz with the fantastic amount of backspin imparted by the force of the hit"
Crenshaw goes on to say one year they did an exhibition on the 15th an Augusta,to try and emulate Sarazens 4 wood he holed in '35.But the greens were rock hard that year and no one could hold the green.Except Hogan,who could stop the ball dead,on a down slope,onto a hard green.Off a downhill lie.
Mystique indeed
And my fave,does this remind you of anyone? Tiger hits these shots now all the time,this was Hogan's follow through with the hold off,identical to Tiger's.
And some quotes from the book
2 quotes from Ken Venturi,who knew Hogan as a player as well as anyone;
When discussing Hogan's lag;
"Hogan held this angle as long as possible.If he used some of the flexible shafts of today,with the amount of force and power he generated,the shaft would flex way to much.Because of this position,he wouldn't use a shaft with any flex,it had to be very stiff."
And when asked about Hogan's clubs;
"No one ever played with as stiff a driver as Hogan.HE HAD THE STIFFEST SHAFT OF ANYONE THAT EVER PLAYED (my caps).Its hard to believe that someone could play with a driver that stiff.He had an extra stiff shaft that was tipped.The first step on the shaft was just above the whipping! I never saw anyhting like it in my life! I tried to hit it once and it went dead right.His irons were a D0 to D2 and his driver about a D7"
So,I think its fair to say his irons were very stiff,and his driver was very,very,very stiff
And;
"I remember vividly the time Lanny Wadkins and I,on a visit to Shady Oaks,watched Hogan hit some 3 irons,and then some 4 woods.Lanny,one of the best ball strikers I have seen,and I sat spell-bound,bith of us amazed at the force he could generate through impact.
For me,that will be the last impression I have of Hogan,how he tore into and through each shot,with his power and force and authority and you KNEW the ball had to obey his command and streak like a laser to the target.I've never seen a ball hit like that,or heard shots that sounded like that,before or since.It was sound unique to Hogan.
Two other images stand out in my mind.First,the very wide,sweeping arc of his backswing,and second,how active his hands and wrists were as he just literally burned up shot after shot,ball after ball buzzing out there all on the same trajectory.When I say 'buzzing',I mean it.I swear as the ball left the club on those 3 irons we could hear the ball buzz with the fantastic amount of backspin imparted by the force of the hit"
Crenshaw goes on to say one year they did an exhibition on the 15th an Augusta,to try and emulate Sarazens 4 wood he holed in '35.But the greens were rock hard that year and no one could hold the green.Except Hogan,who could stop the ball dead,on a down slope,onto a hard green.Off a downhill lie.
Mystique indeed
