Ben Hogan's untold secret grip change

Not posted for a long time and old username (GBD) doesn't seem to work so I added a 1(GBD1).

Something I noticed about Hogan's grip earlier in the year. I do not think his fingers have slipped... Ted Williams quote about " I just shook a hand that felt like 5 bands of steel" should remove any doubt about that.

I think he changed the postion of the overlapping right little finger from the position he described in his books and he used this variation in the most difficult pressure circumstances he ever encountered on the golf course... he just never made them public.

Not posted for a long time and old username (GBD) doesn't seem to work so I added a 1(GBD1).

 

Something I noticed about Hogan's grip earlier in the year. I do not think his fingers have slipped... Ted Williams quote about " I just shook a hand that felt like 5 bands of steel" should remove any doubt about that.

 

I think he changed the postion of the overlapping right little finger from the position he described in his books and he used this variation in the most difficult pressure circumstances he ever encountered on the golf course... he just never made them public.

 

I don't think it's a secret grip modification but rather a vapor trail of what went before. So if during the DS one is winding the left forearm/hand CCW against the CW winding of the right forearm/hand, there will be a pulling up of the right pinkie against the middle knuckle of the left index finger ... all of this designed to keep the clubface stable and square to the clubhead arc through impact by applying opposing forces. If the pull of the right little finger is strong enough, it can slip over the left index finger middle knuckle.

All of the pics you show of this potential slippage (or secret grip mod) are finish or post finish ... I don't think that's a coincidence. How he started is not necessarily how he finished!

You’ve never had your bottom hand slip a little through impact before? It happens from time to time.

Not definitive, but I don't see the left index finger closer to the butt end of the grip than the right pinkie in the pic below.

And how does one account for the large gap between the left index and middle fingers if the right pinkie is not pulling on the left index!

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> I don't think it's a secret grip modification but rather a vapor trail of what went before. So if during the DS one is winding the left forearm/hand CCW against the CW winding of the right forearm/hand, there will be a pulling up of the right pinkie against the middle knuckle of the left index finger ... all of this designed to keep the clubface stable and square to the clubhead arc through impact by applying opposing forces. If the pull of the right little finger is strong enough, it can slip over the left index finger middle knuckle.

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> All of the pics you show of this potential slippage (or secret grip mod) are finish or post finish ... I don't think that's a coincidence. How he started is not necessarily how he finished!

What a juicy observation. Goes along with my thought that the 3 right hands comment was not for power, but too maintain the integrity action of the swing through impact.

also abduction of the right pinky is more in line with what he said in the Stance and Posture Chapter in Five Lessons.

Very interesting observation!

Hogan has explained that the two middle fingers (middle and ring) apply grip pressure for the right hand. It could simply be that he follows this to an extreme with the pinkie finger merely resting in place, and it gets shifted/slips in the process of swinging.