Page 94 - Ben Hogan's Letter Lessons Ver 2

The Hybrid Stance Drills

Belly Button Through Door Post Drill

Mr. Hogan talks about the belly button or belt buckle and how it should move
in the golf swing. I have incorporated the door jam pivot drill into the belly
button concept. Note the Hogan impact position that happens with this drill.

Belly Button To Door Jam Drill

In the pictures above I am utilizing the concept of the belly button or the belt
buckle placement as Mr. Hogan talks about in the letter.

Think of the golf swing as a door jam. Put a golf club right into your belly

button and make swings. If you have room to swing a club half way and half
way through. Note where I have my body placed. Look at my feet . I have it
aligned at the target and my hips and shoulders are slightly opened due to the
bending in more of the right knee.

Place your head so it is directly over the inside of your right thigh. Utilize the
golf club as I am illustrating to get the angles correct. If you do so you will
have a electric connection as I describe it for where you will have it plugged in
into the left foot. That is the first thing that moves in the downswing. So set it

up in the setup.

If you had a club laying across my hips and then across the front of my

shoulders they would be parallel to each other. The cognitive placement of my
head makes everything line up. This is where Mr. Hogan put Al Barkow's