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Very helpful - thanks so much for sharing this. It’s helped me through my first few vintage set reshafts and I’ve now fashioned a wooden leverage board similar to the one used here. Works like a dream…thanks again!

4:17. Say no more.

So cool, sporting that turtle neck and that green (Lacoste?) sweater; brings back such great memories of playing club golf in the 1970's and 1980's in SoCal. John, I gotta admit, I can't hit any 1-iron save one: an old Ping Eye 1 iron that I have hit "legitimately" (carried over 200y and compressed) and "illegitimately", but many of them have been shots that evaded the wind and ended up close on par 3's. Loved listening to this inspired talk. I play the drums too and still remember the first beat I played using 'independant" coordination. It was a lot of work and gave me a sense of accomplishment.

Hello John, I am a younger golfer (19 years old) I played competitively in tournaments up until this year I stopped playing all together due to business reasons. I recently picked up the clubs again. I am curious what your thoughts are on feelings, specifically shallowing the club with your hands. I am a very steep player with a miss right however, my overall swing thought is having my hands release towards my right knee while having my weight shift onto my left foot. This swing thought works for me and I'm trying to get out of the habit of constantly adjusting my swing. Thanks, Clay

The key to putting is distance control, not necessarily making putts. Get the distance right and some will fall. The important thing is not to cause 3 putts... or more.

Great technique on shag carpet. 🤙💥

At the end, it's guys like Erickson that keep the Spirit of Golf alive and burning bright, thanks John!

Bobby locke hooked every shot including his putts and he was one of the best. He also believed that you hold the putter just like all your clubs, his only caveat was that your thumbs line up down the center on the shaft.

Man, I so glad my buddy told me about this video... haven't watched an Erickson video in a while... it's so weird too because I was just lamenting the loss of my vintage Toney Penna flange style heel shafted putter and my Wilson 8802 (long story)…I just wanted to start using them when I went out on the course at night just to have with me while I was practicing shots...but then I remembered when I found that Toney Penna (and it was so cheap, like $5) that I would "mess around " on the practice green and I would be surprised how well I could putt with it. My long term thought was to add lead tape also, but I never thought of flattering the lie out. Thanks John, that was pure awesomeness...love watching you hit one and two irons off your deck!!😂

Bluerock!

That HOOK SPIN concept IS GENIUS, would i only use that concept for straight and breaking left putts? how about left to righters? thanks!!!! Hopefully Adam Scott watches this video!

Very interesting Mr E. Would an old 8802 be a good place to start? Maybe add a bit of lead tape to suit? Cheers.

Keep it up we love these man!

I have two putters I really like an old blade putter painted metal with just three inches at top that's flat the rest is round and it's heavy the touch is great I try to putt like Bobby lock . The other is a Callaway Tuttle which is heavy . You can feel the bottom.

Great video, John. Also, I think that it can be very difficult to see the line with your eyes directly over the ball. The idea of having to make a "stroke" can be mentally crippling. Something to be said for hitting, tapping, and popping the putt. I alway thought that Crenshaw gave the ball a long, flowing tap.

If your scoring ave is 72 you are selling real estate in FL If your scoring ave is 68 you are living next to Tiger in Jupiter FL

Your logic defies brilliance, John. How about chipping technique?

I'm sure I watched it but I don't remember it, thnx for bringing it back. it was the beginning of the end of classic golf but I guess we didn't know it.

Fantastic episode. Thanks to All 🤝

J E : golf swing genius !

Before ABS, no one was talking about ground forces or flattening the shaft in transition, now they are. Will "tripping the shaft" be part of the golfers vernacular in a few years??

The left arm decelerating to P6 automaticaly allows the the right hand to slowly , to accelarate into impact. Ie its like a car crash. When one portion stops, the other speeds up! Hopefully not through the windscreen 😅

I always feel, that i need to be even more precise, when using large cavity back irons 😢

Great episode....well done guys!

I’ve been swinging for 4 seasons, taught by an advanced TGM instructor. He has always taught me to have my right elbow bent through impact, never to try and straighten it.

I think you were commenting on Christopher Hudson’s No More Secrets - Ben Hogan on the “Christopher Hudson” RUclips channel. He has a MasterClass which professes to know Ben Hogan’s Swing. He has videos on his website that are based on his theories. The thing is that he’s actually teaching a geometric swing theory he developed 15+ years ago based on math. He never was able to sell his theories until he used the clickbait of “Ben Hogan - No more secrets”. That finally was the RUclips channel that got viewers. The reality is that it was the same swing he had come up with based on math all those years ago on his first RUclips channel “Chris Hudson”, repackaged as Ben Hogan’s swing. He even uses creepy AI showing Ben Hogan talking and praising “Christopher Hudson” (which is himself) is just creepy and narcissistic.

Interesting, I think I hit with irons but swing with wedges.

MICKEY WRIGHT ..... best swinger of all time.

But Hogan greatly emphasized the importance of swing plane in Five Lessons.

Your lack of chronological snobbery is most refreshing. Most people today, having mindlessly embraced the myth of progress, are shameless chronological snobs. Hence they're unaware that the true Dark Ages are now upon us.

Hi John, back in the 80's, I had multiple lessons with the late Tom Tomasello, a TGM protege of Homer Kelly. Mr. Tomasello was a proponent of something Homer Kelly called a "right arm swing." As I understood it, this was not an active pivot-driven swing but it did involve the right arm driving the uncocking of the left wrist through the ball (not centrifugal force). I recall he took a lot of heat from TGM swingers on this. Any thoughts on this? James, NC

Hogan played the ball further up in his stance and held the release noticeably later.

Do you agree with recent statements by Paddy Harrington & Tom Watson that 85% swing speed comes from the hands / wrists ?

John love your videos appreciate your passion and insight to this wonderful game. Just acquired a spalding pro model 28 driver. it cannot be understated the pleasure in hitting it dead center and the sound….

Hi John from Australia. I followed you many times in tournament downunder. Can you please tell us what actually instigates the TORSO ROTATION. Is it the left shoulder or the core for example. Many thanks John

Should a young kid learn to be a swinger first and then transition them to hitting as they grow stronger in teenage years?

Really good content, made for enjoyable listening. Thanks very much.

This is what Hogan taught Weiskopf to do

Great video boys. Hit ball not well today but 11 putts for 38. Can’t wait for the hogan modules but still so much work to do. ABS putting baby!!

Great stuff, I’m currently a 1.6 and definitely a swinger. What are the first steps to try and transition to a hitter. Really want more control

Keeping the face looking at the target is confusing. If, as a hitter, you keep the face square to your rotating torso, then the face is still only square to your target for a moment, because you’re still rotating your shoulders .

Bryson Dechambeau talks about the right arm straightening after the strike in multiple videos. it seems there is a lot of ways to get it done…

Just one question. . . is the ABS definition of hitter vs swinger the same as Homer's definition?

In a video where Gary McCord was explaining (gushing) over O'Grady's MORAD system, he noted that he talked with someone that claimed Hogan did not write his own book. But also, didn't Hogan's swing change a lot over his career??

First comment!!! Always fun! Another great video.

Hi John. Was Moe Norman a Hitter or a Swinger

Thanks for posting this 6 part series on restoring the persimmon driver. Found these videos very useful.

Look what happened to the U.S. team when they play the Ryder cup in Europe and they had deep rough and tight fairways...

Have you ever tried the mazel golf mini driver its just 50cc?

Very video