{"id":572,"date":"2010-01-23T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","slug":"five-lessons-by-ben-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/five-lessons-by-ben-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Lessons by Ben Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many books of golf instruction that it seems hard to know where to start. Actually, the choice is easy. Get a copy of Ben Hogan\u2019s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Read it, study it. As Hogan\u2019s swing was in a league of its own, so is this book. I have read countless instruction books and can say that no other book speaks with such authority on the matters it covers. No other book is even close.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Five Lessons<\/span> is about the golf swing, nothing else. There\u2019s one chapter on the grip, one chapter on stance and posture, and one chapter each on the backswing and downswing, and a review. Five chapters, five lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Every step is illustrated with crystal-clear drawings by Anthony Ravielli that are works of art in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Hogan\u2019s instruction concerns what worked for him. It\u2019s not for everyone, and Hogan was the first to admit that. That means in many places you have to take his instruction as a point of departure. <\/p>\n<p>That will be easier to do if you acquire a companion book, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Fundamentals of Hogan<\/span>, by David Leadbetter. Hogan\u2019s teaching is explained, and modifications for golfers lacking his strength, flexibility, and stature are suggested. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Five Lessons<\/span> is the only book I trust concerning my swing.  I relearn the fundamentals every year by going slowly through this book. You should, too.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergolfbook.com\/\">www.bettergolfbook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many books of golf instruction that it seems hard to know where to start. Actually, the choice is easy. Get a copy of Ben Hogan\u2019s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf. Read it, study it. As Hogan\u2019s swing was in a league of its own, so is this book. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/five-lessons-by-ben-hogan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Lessons by Ben Hogan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-9e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}