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Ben Hogan Was Golf's Master Swing To The Top: His grip on the game produced major tournament victories.(A)
Byline: DAVID SAITO-CHUNG
If you were a golf fan in the early 1950s, you wanted to know Ben Hogan's secret.
Was it his grip? A special alloy in his irons? A morning prayer to the wind? Pros, fans and the media were all clamoring to know.
At last, he revealed it. It was hardly a secret at all.
Golf Digest ran a cover story in September 1953. "Hogan's Secret" was a 20-minute drill.
"When Ben gets up in the morning, he grabs a club, preferably a wood. With his feet close together, the Little Man clamps his arms tight against his stomach (and) starts a short swing of a few inches, arms still close. Then he gradually lengthens the back swing a foot at a time. He does this for 20 minutes each day until he is taking a full swing, all the while from the close-to-the-body position," Lawrence Robinson wrote.
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