"One cannot see the correct timing of a stroke, but he can feel it. When you comeback to the ball don't attempt to roll your wrists back too soon in your anxiety to get them back in time, because even if you do hit the ground before you strike the ball it will be with the bottom of the club at the back near the lead, and it will straighten in ample time. This motion I have described is what is called the "roll of the wrist" by the professionals. It is comparatively gradual and the club travels through about four feet while it is being made. The snap of the wrist comes at the end of the turn the instant the club head connects with the ball, and it is done in a flash, while the ball is still in contact with the club, so quickly that the eye cannot see it." Marshall Whitlatch
Download : "My theory is that
this "timing" is dependent upon keeping back the left elbow, thereby enabling the full force of the stroke to be brought into the ball." LESSONS IN GOLF BY ALEX SMITH 1907 Open Champion, United States and Western Open Champion
Download : "With the strong left arm I have, I am able to hit past my left wrist and can actually control the flight of my ball by regulating the point at which I brake (not break, note) my left arm and allow my wrists to throw... I tried various angles of back-swing, some flatter than others; at one period, from 1929 to 1932 I hit everything with perhaps an exaggerated draw, but I always remained faithful to my hand action whereby the ball was whipped, not pushed." MY SWING HENRY COTTON First published in 1952 by Country Life Limited
"Instructors have every reason for not dwelling too much on this essential point - the correct timing of the blow - for it is an indefinable sense that is required, and a sense that no instruction can impart, to bring it home to a learner's mind. This much, at least, it is both safe and useful to say, by way of instruction anent it, that the common error is to put the force too soon." H. G. Hutchinson
HENRY LONGHURST SAYS:
"ALL YOU' VE GOT TO DO"
HENRY COTTON SAYS . . .
"USE YOUR WRISTS ... NOT YOUR BACK"
Download : "Do this enough times and you will discover that your left wrist and arm have been definitely strengthened, and have been taught at the same time to help the right hand whip the clubhead into the ball... In my method I make it a point to get the clubhead through - past my body immediately after impact. Use your wrists and save your body. You will be able to play effective golf for many more years. It is the old way maybe, but it is "the way for a lifetime" and you do not court the danger of the slipped disc." Use your wrists.... ... not your back for a better golf swing and a longer golfing life By Henry Cotton GOLF DIGEST May 1957

Download : "... his wrists have uncocked, his right hand has not overpowered his left. Hogan is always conscious of his left hand acting as a fulcrum no matter how hard he hits with his right..." LEARNING FROM THE MASTER - 7 Pages of Photo-Instruction FIRM LEFT SIDE CONTROLS HOGAN'S SWING. SWING STUDY #3 SUBJECT: BEN HOGAN ANALYST: BOB TOSKI. 24 GOLF DIGEST August, 1968
Download : "... The mechanics of a good swing demand a hook," Hogan writes, leading up to his militant measures against it. "To get distance, the hands roll into the ball just before the point of impact, and after it is hit the wrists roll over the top of the shaft. When hit in this way, which is the way the best tournament players hit it, there is nothing for the ball to do but take off low and hard. It curls from right to left at the end of its flight. ... A hook is hard to judge... Sometimes a hook gets so exaggerated that you don't know where to aim." ... In 1946 Hogan was in the throes of just such a dilemma... As he intimates, many fine golfers had been there before him - in fact, all but a very few of the top tournament golfers since Harry Vardon, the last of the natural fade exponents. ..." HOGAN REVEALS HIS SECRET The most highly publicized, widely discussed but best-kept secret in modern sports has been "Hogan Secret." Now that he has decided, at 42, to enter semiretirement, the great golf champion this week disclosed his still unguessed private formula. By HERBERT WARREN WIND SPORTS ILLUSTRATED AUGUST 8, 1955 TIP FROM THE TOP Page 45
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