Here's a amusing article by way of Guy Yocum on what a few teachers think Hogan's data would study if he have been on Trackman:
http://www.Golfdigest.Com/tale/if-ben-hogan-met-trackman
The trendy consensus become a square path with a clubface about 1 degree left of the goal.
I thought Sean Foley brings up a very good factor with of Hogan in all likelihood zeroing out both the face and the path with him hitting the ball barely off the heel.
The 'Hogan hit if off the heel' theory has been bandied about for years as anybody who has ever seen his personal irons saw a wear mark towards the heel.
The simplest trouble with this is a higher information of the gadget at the time.
For the longest time an issue that manufacturers had with equipment is that the epoxy was not strong enough to hold shafts installed in hosels by itself. They needed to use epoxy and then drill a hole on the side of the hosel to stick a pin thru to ensure the shaft would not come loose. You can see the pin hole on the picture above.
In order to do that, they had to make the hosels longer in length. You would see hosels vary from 2.5" to 3.5" in length. In fact, Hogan started to popularize a shorter hosel length with his Hogan irons. These days companies make their hosels much shorter. With muscleback blades, many OEM's will make the hosel longer because the blades player generally seeks a lower ball flight. However, the hosels are still shorter than the irons from yesteryear.
As the hosel length gets longer, the Center of Gravity moves up higher on the clubface and also moves more towards the heel. Thus, Hogan 'hit it off the heel' is a bit of a fallacy that was where the 'sweetspot' was located with those irons.
However, we have to recall that the 'sweetspot' is largely the size of a needle factor and as super as Hogan changed into, it is no longer hard to imagine that he may additionally have neglected that spot sometimes.
I do have a tendency to agree that Hogan possibly warm a fairly low Spin Loft quantity:
Spin Loft = Dynamic Loft - Angle of Attack
The low Spin Loft has a tendency to produce high launch, low spin numbers with the driver. But, it's also characterized with better impact sound, smaller divots and less spin.
The issue with the old balata balls is that they used to spin like crazy (they also only lasted well for about 3-5 holes). Combine that with the grooves on the driver, that meant the golf ball was hard to control the curve for us mere mortals.
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The only issue here is that Trackman only tells us so much and in the case of Hogan, it doesn't tell us nearly enough. There have been plenty of golfers that could hit similar numbers on Trackman and are nowhere near the ballstriker that Hogan was.
I tend to think what the object missed out on are other key aspects to Hogan's swing.
3-D Flat Spot
There is a 'flat spot' in the golf swing located near the low point. In recent years, researchers have discovered that there is a scientific advantage to having a longer Flat Spot. It can help with the Spin Loft, but also give the golfer more room for error in the process. I believe we tend to see longer flat spots with golfers like Hogan who had a pronounced lateral move in transition and then started to 'back up' their Center of Pressure as they go into impact.
I feel the video below explains a major difficulty of people trying to emulate Hogan's swing. Most of the Hogan copycats focus on the address position, having a flat backswing and a flat shaft plane in the downswing and trying to create this massive amount of lag. (along with wearing the white cap which is a must for a Hogan copycat).
But, what they leave out out on is how plenty his Center of Pressure (aka weight) shifts towards his front foot in transition after which 'backs up' as he keeps to rotate the pelvis and cross into effect.
Vertical Swing Plane
This is one of the key elements that Trackman virtually measures however was no longer stated in the article.
The flat shaft plane allowed Hogan to transport and rotate his body like he did and that labored into an elongated Flat Spot.
Here at approximately p6, his left wrist is still in flexion.
And if there was each person that were given their Center of Mass of the membership transferring 'beneath' the net pressure of their fingers...Hogan's swing turned into it.
Rate Of Closure
His pivot motion helped ensure a slower rate of closure.
These elements helped Hogan reach the ones numbers and be able to do it with an notable stage of consistency.
That's usually what I find the problem with the Hogan copycats...they look at the wrong things and then to make matters worse, they try to emulate them to a tee. If they more carefully examined his hand path, wrist movements, lower body motion and his pivot in general, they could end up finding that golf swing they have always wanted...even if it looks nothing like Hogan's.
3JACK
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