"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. It comes down into a green or fairway hot, like a fighter plane landing ...
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"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. Gene Sarazen, for example, had to fight a hook throughout his career." 'HOGAN REVEALS HIS SECRET BEN HOGAN'S SECRET: PRONATION PLUS TWO ADJUSTMENTS' pp. 18- 21 AUGUST 8, 1955 SPORTS ILLUSTARTED 25 CENTS $ 7.50 A YEAR