Brandel Chamblee Blames Hogan's Book. Total Baloney | Ep. 21

The biggest lie the show has taken on: that Ben Hogan's Five Lessons has been bad for golf instruction for 69 years and turned golfers into slicers. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and Sam Osborne go through the critics (Brandel Chamblee, GolfWRX, Golf Digest, the USGTF) and then the book, chapter by chapter: the heel pad grip, the stance and the right foot, the posture, the waggle, the pane of glass, the training exercise from the Ed Sullivan Show, the free ride, and the supination pictures. One rule throughout: what Hogan prescribed, not what Hogan did. The verdict: it's a good book, a regular Joe shooting 90 can break 80 with it, and if everybody did it to the letter nobody would be over a 10 handicap.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:43 New Orleans and Lake Geneva
2:04 Today's big lie
2:23 Ben Hogan wrote two books
3:02 Five Lessons, and eight fundamentals
3:14 The lie: the book made slicers
4:03 Harvey Penick and John Jacobs
4:43 The critics, one at a time
5:13 Brandel Chamblee
5:32 "The origin of bad golf instruction"
6:10 Sam: "That's nonsense"
6:49 What makes a bad teacher
7:47 1957 to 2007: would golf be worse?
8:28 Hogan never retracted a word
9:14 Chamblee's weak grip claim
9:30 "Didn't you make it on tour?"
9:43 GolfWRX: 75% end up slicing
10:32 Golf Digest and tour level torque
10:42 "Which torque, Luke?"
10:56 The Life magazine secret vs. the book
11:24 USGTF: weaker than tour
11:47 The grip: heel pad and forefinger
12:33 What he prescribed, not what he did
13:01 148 million golfers
13:35 How many can pick it up? 16%
14:40 The Vs: right eye and chin
15:30 Twist leverage and gamma rotation
17:04 Sam Snead's grip
17:47 The water pistol drill
18:40 Would this grip make more slicers?
19:06 It would probably screw up Scottie Scheffler
19:53 Stance and posture
20:34 Square right foot, ball on the left heel
21:56 Ball position: what YouTube will say
22:52 The D plane element
23:14 Right foot back: 90% of slicers
23:47 Ben Doyle and the firing squad
24:14 It's hand placement, folks
24:38 Hitting it low: move the ball back?
25:22 The shooting stick
25:49 Less booty up in the air
26:18 Would Hogan's posture make slicers?
27:15 Right arm more bent than the left
27:45 The waggle
28:04 Hey Brandel, hey GolfWRX
29:09 The delayed pivot and the right leg post
29:32 The top: 90 and 45
29:53 "I would've made a lot less money"
31:27 The pane of glass
31:48 Manzella's most famous thing: the sickle
33:24 All you Ben Hogan book haters
33:40 Straight back and flop it
34:19 A little flatter, under the glass
35:03 Dropping the plane coming down
35:23 The training exercise
35:48 Google Ben Hogan Ed Sullivan Show
36:21 The number one most important drill in golf
36:51 Does that look handle-dragging slicey?
37:49 The one thing that might: the free ride
38:52 Would the free ride make slicers?
39:13 The one hand ball throw
39:35 Supination and the arched wrist
40:07 Cupped, flat, arched: HackMotion
40:31 90% of slicers wouldn't slice again
40:46 Sam: before his time
41:18 "I wish I had three right hands"
41:44 Nobody over a 10 handicap
42:08 Practically everyone can break 80
42:40 Where's the evidence?
43:12 69 years of bad instruction?
43:37 Total baloney
44:06 Don't stay away from the book
44:17 Regular Joe shooting 90 can break 80
44:27 Sam: way ahead of his time
44:47 An original Anthony Ravielli
45:06 Proved piece by piece
45:33 Great show