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The Secret of Hogan's Swing | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tom Bertrand, Printer Bowler
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 128817
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 171
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471998311
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3523
EAN: 9780471998310
ASIN: 0471998311
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
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Praise for The Secret of Hogan's Swing
"The Secret of Hogan's Swing goes beyond pure instruction, offering insightful shot-making and strategy tips passed on to former tour pro John Schlee from Ben Hogan and interpreted wonderfully by Tom Bertrand and Printer Bowler."
--John Andrisani, author of Tiger's New Swing and Heaven Can Wait
"Like finding the Rosetta stone of golf. . . . Tom Bertrand and Printer Bowler's The Secret of Hogan's Swing gives us a pipeline to the Master's wisdom that we thought had been lost forever. Secret is an instruction book like no other. It's the Hogan book Hogan himself never wrote, packed with the insights the great champion passed on to John Schlee (in a fascinating mentor-disciple relationship) and that Schlee, in turn, bequeathed to Tom Bertrand. We'll probably never have anything like this again. Hogan's gone, Schlee's gone, but thank goodness we've got Tom Bertrand to preserve the nuggets of pure golfing gold that the Master dug up 'out of the dirt' of ten thousand practice tees and a thousand tournaments. The Secret of Hogan's Swing demonstrates that the vein of wisdom left by the peerless champion still yields up precious ore, not just in the technical aspects of the golf swing (Hogan's concepts are not only absolutely modern but even quite radical) but in his insights into the psychological and mental aspects of the game. His concept of the 'moving wall' is worth the price of the book alone. A must-read for every serious student of the game."
--Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Bagger Vance
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 Where's Hogan? July 28, 2008
This book was a great idea, but it spends WAY too much time talking about these three other guys, as opposed to Ben. Read Hogan's own "Five Lessons" before you even consider this one.
There are a few nuggets, but like Rieflin says in another review, it's really more like a magazine article with a bunch of padding about the authors's 'research'. And it's still only 171 pages long.
You'll hit it further than 171 yards if you get Ben's book.
 Tom Bertrand's "The Secret of Hogan's Swing" February 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a passionate golf "junkie" who has probably read every Hogan book written, I highly recommend Tom Bertrand's "The Secret of Hogan's Swing".
The book provides the clearest and most detailed explanation of the Hogan swing method. Each step of the swing is superbly illustrated and demonstrated with photographs.
I found it easy to learn and use the Hogan technique. However, I would recommend purchasing Tom Bertrand's Legendary Golf DVD Series. It's beautify done and easy to apply... a very powerful golf swing.
Another way to understand Hogan October 17, 2007
Bertrand and Bowler's book about the "secret" of Hogan's swing presents Ben Hogan as inscrutable, an enigma wrapped inside a riddle. The book is very well-written and Bowler is acknowledged as one of the best writers on golf. However, it suggests that Hogan can only be understood through the tragic figure of John Schlee, who, ostensibly, was the trusted inheritor of Hogan's "secret."
Unintentionally, the reader becomes much more interested in Schlee's personality and the burden associated with carrying Hogan's secret that one becomes less interested in actually learning the secret. When the secret is finally divulged - a greater concentration on the left elbow during the downswing - one can't help feeling that this information will barely help the average golfer.
All in all, a very readable book. It will add to the current debate about who will have greater influence on young golfers -- Nicklaus or Hogan?
Puts it all together. June 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a new golfer I've been reading books and magazine articles trying to get the aspects of a good swing into my head - this book puts it all together. The end of the book simplfies all of the elemements into a clear and concise summary and gives a plan for practicing those elements, which is exactly what I needed. Besides all of that, this book was a really fun read.
Finally the Truth about Ben Hogan March 9, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book about the legacy of Ben Hogan's legendary work and discoveries that revolutionized the game of golf. Like the ancient oral traditions of many cultures, the transmittal of wisdom from person to person, master to student, has been the most certain way to insure that real knowledge survives and continues on from one generation to the next.
Here the authors have written a fascinating chronicle of Hogan, the master, passing on his hard-earned wisdom to John Schlee, the student, over a period of five years during the late 60s and early 70s. Schlee, a Tour player whose ailing back forced him to retire in 1978, later founded the Maximum Golf School and became well known for teaching Hogan's swing secrets to students from around the country. In 1985 Schlee met Tom Bertrand, an eager young player searching for the real thing, who became his student and later partner. Tom's focus was to learn, teach and record in detail the wealth of knowledge that Schlee had received from Hogan, much of which came after the 1957 publication of Hogan's "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf." Hogan never stopped working, experimenting, and discovering more about his life-long obsession, the game of golf. And Schlee was the beneficiary of almost two decades of new revelations unearthed by the master and unrecorded until now.
This book is as close as John Schlee may ever get to having his own biography. While the authors highlight Schlee's career (winner of the PGA's first Q-School in 1965, second to Johnny Miller in the 1963 U.S. Open at Oakmont, one of Hogan's less-than-a-handful of long-term students, developer of the long putter and clubhead adjustable weighting systems, pioneer of lightweight milled putter heads, and more), their primary purpose was to gather up the sum and essence of Hogan's wisdom and offer it to all of us. This they have done with clarity and simplicity so that any golfer can understand and use these teachings to refine his/ her game. For this purpose, Hogan's relationship with Schlee is important for what it yielded in practical golf wisdom, and the authors have covered that aspect quite thoroughly.
This book is very well written in a simple yet eloquent style that makes you feel like you're part of a conversation with the authors. They look you straight in the eye and just share their story, like one golfer to the other. What Hogan gave to Schlee, and Schlee gave to Tom Bertrand, the authors now give to us as fellow seekers in our endless pursuit of golfing excellence. There's a lot of magic and light bulbs going off in this book, and I won't spoil it for you. Check it out yourself and be ready for some pleasant surprises and new understandings about the game we all love.
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