The Coleman Video -- Ben Hogan 1977 in BW

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @douglashamilton925
    @douglashamilton925 Год назад +3

    Greetings from Bonny Scotland to just repeat and reinforce the gratitude due to you for posting this superb footage. Young children taking up the game should be sat down and simply asked to see for themselves the sublime "Mr Hogan"

  • @patc1309
    @patc1309 3 года назад +10

    Imagine walking along the beach not knowing who that guy is up ahead swatting golf balls into the ocean and thinking to yourself DANG that guy has a nice swing!

  • @blakerh
    @blakerh 4 года назад +7

    Man, what a swing! Love the slow motion. His left shoulder turn is amazing for a guy his age! Beautiful.

  • @PantsofVance
    @PantsofVance 6 лет назад +6

    Everyone in the comments is marveling at the swing but his explanation and exhibition of the grip is priceless footage.

  • @1974jrod
    @1974jrod 4 года назад +5

    I don't think the world understands that this video happens to be one of the greatest sports events in history.

  • @j.p.montpellier3834
    @j.p.montpellier3834 3 года назад +3

    The thing about his graceful movement is it revealed at it's core the unfiltered uniqueness of his pure and raw talent.
    He was and remains a paragon on how to properly strike a golf ball....
    Bravo ! 👏👏👏🥇😊👍🥂🇨🇦

  • @adb7086
    @adb7086 10 лет назад +13

    A privilege to see. Bit like seeing michaelango creating a doodle for his friends. You can see it all: 65 years old, terribly injured in that leg, yet you can still see that he's a master. Sits right on the top table in golf heaven.

  • @davidgee1048
    @davidgee1048 9 лет назад +1

    Beautiful. There is the similar swing toward the ocean as the man who hit the 1 iron at Merion. Watching this man swing at the end of his life - the golf connoisseur's simple pleasure.

    • @HBiz72
      @HBiz72 7 лет назад +2

      Hogan died in 1997; 20 years later

  • @johnd102
    @johnd102 9 лет назад +10

    Ben Hogan in your own back yard, letting you film all you want, even breaking down his iconic grip....and even supplying his own slo-mo!!! What a dream.

  • @DrDomGolf
    @DrDomGolf 10 лет назад +10

    There are other swings one can examine for instructional value. But none capture the scientific simplicity we find in Mr. Hogan. ...It is built perfectly and performs as would an anatomical clock that refuses to quite. No one ever developed a better swing; and none better is likely to emerge as the future unfolds. ...I expect this to be proven once we better understand its key elements; even as its Master Combination beyond the grip are virtually impossible to see. Nevertheless, they are all right before us and represent golf at its true natural best. -- It's a joy to see this footage and may it remain on RUclips "forever" to help inform all generations to come.
    "Thanks So Much" for bringing this footage to attention. ... It's a treasure. ...DrDom

    • @tchwiss
      @tchwiss 7 лет назад +2

      Oh I dunno........Sam Snead developed a pretty good swing

  • @jimmurphy834
    @jimmurphy834 Месяц назад

    His swing tempo is perfection. Fred Couples and George Knudson come to mind.

  • @dano11000
    @dano11000 9 лет назад +6

    look at him hes like a little kid again give me another ball u can see his focus ,,,,amazing

  • @Baddmnkey1
    @Baddmnkey1 12 лет назад +1

    Even at age 65 you can hear that club whipping through the impact area and the solid thud of the strike. Awesome video, thanks for posting.

  • @HILLTOPGOLF
    @HILLTOPGOLF 5 лет назад

    This is magical! He was either 64 or 65 when this was taken. The speed and fluidity. Hogan was other worldly. The smile on Hogan’s face show’s how much he loved hitting balls. Best backyard in the world right there,

  • @vanislefan
    @vanislefan 7 лет назад +15

    How valuable is this video? Like finding a rare coin in your pocket change! Hope people realize how important this is..

  • @bfairdb2
    @bfairdb2 11 лет назад +1

    I just found this for the first time. What I get from this video is that his hand and body movement before the swing was just as important as the actual swing. He really emphasizes it in the slow motion action. This is pretty incredible stuff.

  • @danason20501
    @danason20501 12 лет назад +3

    I noticed that his right foot placement allows him to address the ball with his knee pointing towards the target. also in slow motion movement, he's absolutely brilliant at rotating his shoulders and arm club unit around his set spine angle so perfectly.

  • @wardsexton
    @wardsexton 9 лет назад +13

    Nobody mentions that every shot Ben hits goes dead straight! Amazing grace, amazing accuracy...and he's 65 here!

    • @mck974
      @mck974 7 лет назад +3

      Ward Sexton the guy was simply amazing... he could draw the ball as much or as little as he chose.. and fade it at will also! he is my true north in golf!!

  • @johnd102
    @johnd102 9 лет назад +5

    The whoosh is amazing!

  • @johnfaieta7665
    @johnfaieta7665 5 лет назад

    What a great video. Hogan truly was the master!

  • @Dreama40
    @Dreama40 7 лет назад +3

    It just does not get any better than Mr Hogan. Legend.

  • @MrRobeezy29
    @MrRobeezy29 12 лет назад +1

    mystical. legendary. would have been awesome to meet him

  • @screamingeagletim
    @screamingeagletim 9 лет назад +3

    The sound off the club is so amazing.

    • @mickyk9801
      @mickyk9801 8 лет назад +1

      Tim Shay we lost that when we switched to metal

    • @screamingeagletim
      @screamingeagletim 8 лет назад +2

      Micky K. I hear ya there. I came up on persimmon woods. Didn't hear "tink" till the mid-90s. Good times.

    • @mickyk9801
      @mickyk9801 8 лет назад

      Tim Shay They were at that. You could always tell from the sound alone on wooden clubs if it was hit out of the heel or toe where the metal clubs sound the same accross the face.

    • @screamingeagletim
      @screamingeagletim 8 лет назад +1

      the clubs today have this huge heads and big sweet spots and basically just Square themselves up all you have to do is throw your hands at the ball Ben Hogan Sam Snead Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer Jack Nicklaus Gary Player and others had to swing the golf club and that's becoming a lost art

    • @mickyk9801
      @mickyk9801 8 лет назад +1

      Tim Shay yes, i remember seve saying theres only 4 or five good ball strikers in the world-about 1980 so this group would win most tournaments as a goox strike was so much more important as the ball would lose more distance and go further off line than modern clubs

  • @k.dickie8972
    @k.dickie8972 2 года назад

    I understand that he used to practice a slow motion swing in order to try to diagnose and feel what was happening in his swing. Let's face it there wasn't video replay when he was trying to figure this stuff out in the 30's and 40's. He was a golf scientist in his day. more than anything, he lived his life to understand how to play the best golf for himself. The fact that he discovered many of golf's true fundamentals was a byproduct that help many generations to enjoy golf.

  • @hoganthegreat1
    @hoganthegreat1 12 лет назад +1

    CLASS DISMISSED!!! Awesome.

  • @timbucker
    @timbucker 5 лет назад +2

    I'm pretty sure this is the only Hogan video I've seen where you can actually hear him making contact with the ball. And a sweet sound it is!

  • @peejay3
    @peejay3 13 лет назад +1

    Fantastic! The slomos are very telling, and difficult to perform.Thanks a lot.

  • @timbucker
    @timbucker 4 года назад +2

    7:00 "Now watch this, see how it comes down behind him?" At the top of his swing his right wrist is facing out toward the ball. Half way down it's facing straight up and at impact it is facing down the target line. It rotates through all 3 planes of free space in a fraction of a second and keeps him from coming over the top. To do this I think about twisting my right forearm clockwise as I start down.

  • @Celegroz
    @Celegroz 8 лет назад +4

    Mr. Hogan was so formal and proper in his speech. He was definitely from a by-gone era.

    • @pcooke9865
      @pcooke9865 5 лет назад

      That era needs to come back

    • @TheNYgolfer
      @TheNYgolfer 5 лет назад

      He wasn't very formal or proper in real life though. To those outside his inner circle he was a nasty sob. Just ask Johnny Miller.
      He also cursed like a sailor according to his biographer Jody Vazquez

  • @herbm55
    @herbm55 4 года назад +5

    “That’s all there is to it...”.

  • @daw162
    @daw162 11 лет назад +2

    What I'm getting at, I guess, is that Ben is a man's golfer of the highest regard. The real deal. We can't really expect an uninitiated misses to really see the value.

  • @daw162
    @daw162 11 лет назад +2

    Have you guys noticed that when ben shows his swing slow motion, it actually looks like his swing, unlike a lot of folks who try to show you their sequences and they never look the same.

  • @christopherfranklin972
    @christopherfranklin972 9 лет назад

    Simply awesome.Thank you for posting.

  • @davidgault1802
    @davidgault1802 5 лет назад

    Mr Hogan the master on the golf coarse and legend

  • @SolomonLi
    @SolomonLi 7 лет назад +5

    Those little delayed splashes when he hits towards the ocean are dead straight... dang.

  • @rayfrosti7849
    @rayfrosti7849 9 лет назад

    Thank you

  • @fradaja
    @fradaja 12 лет назад +2

    you can hear the clubface is square!!!!! god i love that sound,i'm gonna buy some persimmon woods!

  • @Dreama40
    @Dreama40 12 лет назад

    A private afternoon and lesson with Mr Hogan, oh boy how lucky were they!

  • @wamerman
    @wamerman 12 лет назад +1

    Oh man that tempo. I just felt .5 strokes drop off my index watching the tempo on this video...

  • @DASH1ful
    @DASH1ful 12 лет назад +2

    This certainly is one the most important videos. For an additional reason, also. If Steve Elkington and his other SITD colleagues are correct, in their proclamation that Hogan twisted to the right with his feet, Hogan's feet would slip thru the sand, which they don't. And he is not even wearing his own shoes. Also when Hogan makes his slow swing Coleman says that it was as hard as making ten swings. And Hogan agrees. This shows that his slow swing is in fact an isometric training exercise.

  • @sbamf
    @sbamf 12 лет назад +1

    Good to see

  • @DASH1ful
    @DASH1ful 12 лет назад +1

    He pushes back virtually as far back on the inside as he can. And this is something that most players don't do nowadays.

  • @spacefieldtime
    @spacefieldtime 12 лет назад +1

    a classic swing very much like Jose Maria Olazabal's....that said, beautiful well thought out swing....

  • @steveinaz78
    @steveinaz78 11 лет назад

    Great video of Hogan hitting. He is the greatest

  • @stevestewart240
    @stevestewart240 2 года назад

    He and Moe truly did own their swing

  • @frslas
    @frslas 4 года назад +2

    0:19 one of the best sounds in sports. Now? Tink.

  • @coreyjohn17
    @coreyjohn17 4 года назад

    ..the sound of that impact.

  • @SCTV59
    @SCTV59 3 года назад +1

    POWERRRRRR!!

  • @DASH1ful
    @DASH1ful 11 лет назад +1

    Yes, but the thing is it is easier to hold your position when you swing in slow mo.He still the applies the pressure on the ground with the right foot when he hits the ball, probably a bit more.

  • @AndrewLane-pm2ro
    @AndrewLane-pm2ro 3 месяца назад

    I read that Ben Hogan said that by the time he'd figured out how to hit the ball properly, he was too old to take advantage of it!

  • @bryanhogan7352
    @bryanhogan7352 11 лет назад +1

    George Coleman was a wealthy oil tycoon and a close personal friend of Hogan's from the early '40s and onward. If you are a huge Hogan fan, then you would know how wary and shy Ben was of strangers.
    As Hogan aged into his 50s and 60s, he became increasingly embarrassed of both his swing and putting woes. When asked to play an exhibition in 1969, he replied, "There's no way on earth I'm going to let people see my game. Nobody but me should have to suffer through THAT."

  • @bryanhogan7352
    @bryanhogan7352 11 лет назад

    The sad thing about this video is that it was never supposed to be released. Hogan and Coleman often hit balls into the ocean from Coleman's lawn, in '77 George want a copy of Ben's swing. And Ben agreed to do it on one condition- that it never be shown to anyone but the Colemans and their closest friends. But a pirated vervain would be leaked onto the Internet, and I can't help but think about how much this would upset Ben, complete strangers seeing him like this...

  • @Dreama40
    @Dreama40 12 лет назад

    I showed a couple of swings of this video to my misses and she says, "whos that old fart", i replied probably the most admired golfer for his golf swing of all time. She replied that old fart, yeah right! lol i still luv her....

    • @alydar21
      @alydar21 6 лет назад

      Best post here.

  • @bladnasternaster8607
    @bladnasternaster8607 8 лет назад +1

    Can anyone understand what it is he is saying when he is demonstrating in slow motion. I cant make it out.

    • @tonythomas8360
      @tonythomas8360 8 лет назад

      He's referring to the club head coming from behind him rather than in front like what is being taught today.. Teachers today neglect the all important 3rd dimension..

    • @Njliving22
      @Njliving22 8 лет назад

      can you explain this particularly the 3rd dimension

    • @zacharydmoser
      @zacharydmoser 6 лет назад

      swagcity the wrist/hand hinge

  • @tooc7579
    @tooc7579 11 лет назад +1

    Bryan how do you know this? who was George Coleman in relation to Hogan? As a huge Hogan fan I think this film is really interesting and shows a side of Hogan's personality which would have never been known to the general public

  • @jeffy10028
    @jeffy10028 4 года назад +1

    Quote: "In 1977, at age 65, Ben Hogan made one final trip to Florida." False. Hogan visited Seminole from 1978 through at least 1983. I know the assistant responsible for taking care of Hogan when he was on the property during those years.

  • @tooc7579
    @tooc7579 11 лет назад +1

    Hogan did close his feet with the driver and longer irons moving to square with about the seven and open then with ths short iron. In his books he mentions it

  • @hbviceroy7274
    @hbviceroy7274 Год назад

    He will always be the master………….

  • @straycatannie5868
    @straycatannie5868 7 лет назад +7

    Is there a marine biologist in the crowd!! lol

    • @richardyanco3229
      @richardyanco3229 5 лет назад

      How can you live with yourself?

    • @johnfaieta7665
      @johnfaieta7665 5 лет назад

      Straycat Annie is that a Titleist?

    • @Dreama40
      @Dreama40 5 лет назад

      Not everyone will get that, but funny as hell lol

    • @HILLTOPGOLF
      @HILLTOPGOLF 5 лет назад

      Yes I’m George Vandelay

  • @AndrewDCDrummond
    @AndrewDCDrummond Год назад

    Humbling to watch…

  • @tmo4330
    @tmo4330 8 лет назад +4

    Oh my gosh, i am not far behind him in age (this video), many golfers play their best after retirement when they can practice! I am within a year or so. I hope i can shoot par at age 65! The 73's and 75's are few in between but if i could practice i think i could play lower scores in old age.

  • @Ariztid
    @Ariztid 11 лет назад

    Doesn't look like someone who's taking all these "secrets" to the grave. He's showing us everything.

  • @allanbrooks3060
    @allanbrooks3060 3 года назад +1

    The best. At any age.patterned my swing from ben

  • @daw162
    @daw162 11 лет назад

    I don't ask my wife about scotch, straight razors, woodworking tools , etc either. There are some things many women won't get, and ben hogan is probably one of them. They want to see guys put on a charismatic show and hear flamenco music in the background.

  • @fayette202
    @fayette202 12 лет назад +2

    He was still a scratch golfer ten years later, according to Kris Tschetter

  • @stevestewart240
    @stevestewart240 2 года назад

    He showed everyone “IT”in this video…

  • @BlueDayDo
    @BlueDayDo 6 лет назад

    "The shaft may be a little stiff for you." LOL

  • @daw162
    @daw162 11 лет назад +2

    Hopefully Ben would understand times have changed some, and folks wouldn't have judged him for not looking dressed perfectly and perfect hair, etc.
    All I see when I watch this video is a sweet swing, striking ball at age 65 that most will never see at any age.

    • @JeremiahAlphonsus
      @JeremiahAlphonsus 2 месяца назад

      Even today, Hogan would refuse to dress like a slob, since he had self-respect...unlike those conformed to this wretched age.

  • @sappermade6012
    @sappermade6012 5 лет назад

    Where is this video taken???

    • @screamingeagletim
      @screamingeagletim 3 года назад

      The house of Mr. Hogan's friend George Coleman in Florida.

  • @AnEnormousBBFan
    @AnEnormousBBFan 11 лет назад +1

    Is it my imagination or are Hogan's feet in the closed position while his shoulders are in the open position?

    • @timpratt2725
      @timpratt2725 4 года назад

      If you read his book. He set up with his feet slightly closed

    • @JeremiahAlphonsus
      @JeremiahAlphonsus 2 месяца назад

      Astute observation. It is not merely your imagination. As Kris Tschetter wrote in her must-read book on page 27: ""Even though the body was older and a tad plumper than the photos and drawings I'd seen, the setup was the same. His knees, hips, arms, and shoulders were open to his very closed feet."

  • @seinfeld8812
    @seinfeld8812 6 лет назад

    7:00-7:10 pure magick

  • @garylucas7050
    @garylucas7050 6 лет назад

    If only the quality of the video was better .....such a shame 😫

  • @thetruthfornow6045
    @thetruthfornow6045 2 года назад +2

    Hogan may be the GOAT. If your counting majors then it is Nicklaus. Hogan missed 16 majors during WW2. A bunch more at his peak due to a head on car crash. Plus he only played the British Open once due to a scheduling conflict with the PGA. I have no doubt he would have tied or beaten Nicklaus 18 majors if he got to compete under the same conditions as Jack. I figure he missed 36 majors due to war or scheduling and the year he missed due his injury I am not counting as Tiger missed a year for his accident. GOAT also over Tiger because he played with inferior equipment which was unpredictable and shorter. He could have adapted to current equipment but could Tiger have adapted to Hogan era equipment with his crooked driver using current equipment?

  • @hoganthegreat1
    @hoganthegreat1 12 лет назад

    His feet are not on sand. It looks that way but it is grass. Look at the colorized version

  • @McFrosty2014
    @McFrosty2014 11 лет назад +1

    You can see the stiffness and pain in his legs has he walks around, but when he's over the ball, absolute fluidity, grace and control. Furthermore, I've never seen a 65 year old man put that kind of a whack on the ball, or make a full follow through for that matter.

    • @jamesfitzgerald6636
      @jamesfitzgerald6636 5 лет назад

      Anthony Naylor ... your right but check out Mike Austin give an exhibition in he’s 70s fluid and long

    • @davida.4933
      @davida.4933 5 лет назад

      Here I am at 65, plus to make things more difficult I'm wearing spikes on the cement. Stop the swing to compare my angles to Mr. Hogan's. Stay in shape! P.S. I'm now 70 and can swing even better. ruclips.net/video/i4v6X-Xuat8/видео.html

  • @greeder88
    @greeder88 12 лет назад

    Anyone notice his hips don't power through until his club is back to waist high? However slow motion demo shows hips turning first. Maybe he didn't even know his secret?

  • @michaelkennedy8135
    @michaelkennedy8135 3 года назад

    If he had no injuries( stronger fitter and more flexible) he could have still won majors with that swing.

  • @LeftRightLeftUpper
    @LeftRightLeftUpper 5 лет назад

    Bandits... hitting those balls the sea

  • @fradaja
    @fradaja 12 лет назад

    halfway back hip height.......absolutely essential position virtually no wrist break|!.......

  • @andrewmartin9549
    @andrewmartin9549 4 года назад

    Please let everyone note there is not a jot of lateral head movement in either direction ,,,,,,THE Hogan secret.

    • @acheamwake4287
      @acheamwake4287 4 года назад

      Indeed, but, as we are bi-pedals, lateral motion back and through has to happen in order to establish the pivot points-rotation can happen on only one axis. That 30 pound ball on top of your neck has to move as well or you can never create the axis. It is a shift-turn-shift-turn action.

    • @andrewmartin9549
      @andrewmartin9549 4 года назад

      @@acheamwake4287 The only head movement prior to striking the ball is rotational not lateral.

  • @TheBigwillistyle
    @TheBigwillistyle 7 лет назад

    Can only imagine what he could have done if he didn't have the car wreck.

  • @stevenjohnstone5833
    @stevenjohnstone5833 Год назад

    Maybe the only golfer to understand the centrifugal slow motion swing. This is not a slowed downcopy of filmed p sequences. In the downswing at so called p6 the club face is facing the sky. This is not the case for video sequnces of his swing where the club face is in the expected position at this point in the swing. In other words in his full speed version of this swing the club face is thrown out and rotated more closed by centrifugal force at this point in the downswing. How he worked this true slow motion centrifugal sequnce out will obviously remain secret since his passing. Maybe just empirical commonsense observations of how video p6 is thrown out it full speed if you first practise it in slow motion and reverse engineering from there.

  • @alydar21
    @alydar21 6 лет назад +1

    His grip explanation is like watching Jesus read from the bible.

  • @hawgifan
    @hawgifan Год назад

    Watch how his hands roll back and roll through after impact. That’s his secret that he talked about in the Life magazine article where they paid him $13,000 to.tell his secret

  • @fradaja
    @fradaja 12 лет назад +2

    he looks old.......till he hits the ball!.......i'm 40 i dont have that flexibility!

  • @0ucantstopme034
    @0ucantstopme034 9 лет назад

    Almost feel like we shouldn't be watching. A private video not meant for all to see?

    • @Kedeas
      @Kedeas 9 лет назад +2

      President Eisenhower painted a picture for Arnold Palmer and gave it to him. Palmer felt the picture was too important and the meaning behind its development to be locked away, where only HE could enjoy it. So he donated it to the Golf Hall of Fame where it is on display as it should be. So others can enjoy it.
      I consider this film the same.
      JMHO

    • @joecool8308
      @joecool8308 8 лет назад

      +0ucantstopme0 Yes, just like porn, you should not be watching, but you can't help yourself. Very similar.

    • @joecool8308
      @joecool8308 8 лет назад

      +KE Deas Just like Hustler.

    • @0ucantstopme0
      @0ucantstopme0 8 лет назад

      +Joe Cool Yeah, I guess so.

    • @kysotice
      @kysotice 8 лет назад +1

      +0ucantstopme0 The manner in which Mr Hogan teaches to the camera, I am going to assume he knew that this would be seen someday for the masses. Just about everything you need to know is right here. I think he knew that.

  • @pb12661
    @pb12661 11 месяцев назад

    dude could still whack it at 65.

  • @MrToth8
    @MrToth8 10 лет назад +1

    His secret is in a Chinese exercise called Fa-jin. It is a branch of the tai chi phase and is all internal power. This is pure evidence on why, at the age of 65 and limping, he is able to smack the ball, same sound as in his 40's, he has not lost the technique and he learned it very well. That combined with EVERYTHING he is showing in this video.

    • @PBH74
      @PBH74 10 лет назад +1

      Fa jin is not an exercise. It is an expression of force used in many Chinese martial arts.

    • @joecool8308
      @joecool8308 8 лет назад

      +Richard Toth It is called STEROIDS>!

  • @ecosse543
    @ecosse543 6 лет назад

    I wish pro golfers would act like hogan on the course instead of showing no class at times. Hogan was class alound.

  • @joecool8308
    @joecool8308 8 лет назад +1

    He is killing fish, where is PETA?

  • @joecool8308
    @joecool8308 8 лет назад

    You can tell his first try was a shank.

    • @mickyk9801
      @mickyk9801 8 лет назад

      Joe Cool joe thats uncool☺

  • @fredroth2853
    @fredroth2853 5 лет назад

    B

  • @darioteich
    @darioteich 12 лет назад

    Divorce her!

  • @casmdean1
    @casmdean1 11 лет назад

    divorce her ASAP

  • @robert11751
    @robert11751 10 лет назад +1

    to bad coleman was to cheap to buy a better quality movie camera i know they made better than that in 77

    • @trebor2515
      @trebor2515 10 лет назад +3

      I'd say what has happened is the tape has deteriorated over time before being transferred to digital rather than it being a poor quality camera

  • @donewithdemocrats
    @donewithdemocrats 5 лет назад

    A legend among the common folk