How far would Ben Hogan hit it with modern day equipment .

[alpineto]

Just watching some Ben Hogan youtube clips and his swing was incredible and powerful

I'd say he'd be in the top ten in driving distance if he was currently on the pga tour

just an amazing talent that I dare say that the modern golf swing is based on .

the golf equipment he used back in the day was pure garbage including the balls and drivers that looked

like modern day 7 woods , definetly a hero of mine and a joy to watch .

[Steele47]

A lot of those drivers, irons etc. from those days were NOT garbage.

[alpineto]

Have you watched him hit balls on film ? if so do you not see the shaft bend in anything that he hit

complete garbage by todays standards .

 

 

[TobesSC]

Shaft bend doesn’t mean anything.

[dasams]

Some of the shaft bend may be due to the camera's shutter. Old style shutters had a front and a rear curtain. As they move across the film, they expose the part of the film that's between the two curtains. Let's say the curtains move left to right This means that objects in the left side of the image are exposed before objects in the right. If the subject was a golfer hitting driver, it also means that the club's grip may be exposed before the club head. Since the exposure has a finite time, the club head will not be in the same position as it was when the grip was exposed. Hence you can have what appears to be a bent shaft even for a shaft that stayed perfectly straight throughout the swing.

 

[hurley999s]

That’s absolutely correct. The bend isn’t real.

By all accounts, Hogan played heavy (and likely very stiff) clubs.

On another note, I smell a troll thread in the making here.

[Old Tom Morris]

Another jerkoff that thinks golf started the day Tiger Woods turned pro in 1996.

[Steele47]

LOL Thanks for the laugh.

[farmer]

The balls were garbage, the woods Hogan used were as good as anything prior to metal. Irons were about a club weaker by loft than current offerings, but they were fine irons, definitely not garbage. The shafts were stock weight steel, and didn't change a great deal for years and years. To distance, there's just no way to tell. He wouldn't be in the top 10, but he would be comfortably long enough. IBTL

[ThinkingPlus]

He would hit it exactly as far as he needed to just like he always did.

[Gsea]

100% dead on. If you read Jody Vasquez's book he tells a Hogan story. Occasionally after retirement Hogan would join the money game at Colonial. One day an out of towner was playing as a members guest. Hogan hated players looking in his bag to see what he hit and this guy was doing it all day. So on one hole both their drives were pretty even but Hogan was away aprx 150 yds. Hits an 8 10 ft from the pin. Guy says an 8 huh. Hogan drops another ball hits 7 even closer, drops another ball hits a 6 just as close. Takes a drag of the cig and gets in his cart. Guy was speechless. Thats freaking GOLF.

[bigdane]

To-days "standards" is in no way better than the old clubs. Material, in both heads and shafts are like night and day in comparison, but you cannot call the old clubs complete garbage.

Just look at the tests where modern players try to hit old woods - not very successfull are they? So probably the old timers were better golfers than to-days mechanized swing-and-hit-300-yards?

 

[smashdn]

I think he would be about like Rory. Maybe not quite as long. Hogan was long in his day and definitely for his size. That is why I make the Rory comparison. Not sure that he would go after it the way the modern players do. Maybe a smoother swing to keep the hook from coming into play but still 300 plus for sure.

[ebk]

Spoiler

 

Not only would he hit it a long way today, he (unlike so many today) would hit it where he wants to.

Edited August 18, 2020 by ebk

[NoFancyUsername.]

I measured it on my Ben Hogan Golf App...with todays Mizuno MP20s he would average 283.86 yards.

Now, back to my cereal.

[SwagGolf6112]

On 8/18/2020 at 5:59 AM, ebk said:

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Not only would he hit it a long way today, he (unlike so many today) would hit it where he wants to.

 

[GGM]

If Ben Hogan were alive today he would be laughing at speculation about how far he could hit it. He would probably say it’s where you hit it not how far. A lot of people have been speculating for many years as to what his so-called ‘secret’ was. I think he said the secret out loud many times: he hates a hook. It’s not some tiny little action like cupping his left wrist, pronation or supination. He hit a tiny fade for a reason: consistency and control. I think if a modern pro ever figured this out and stopped trying to work the ball on every shot, just hit the ball fairly straight instead, we’d have another Ben Hogan. I think losing working the ball would give better control and consistency of line and distance. I’ve watched golf for many decades and it always seemed to me that a straight shot would work in the vast majority of situations if you hit it the right distance. And if you hit the ball fairly straight consistent distance is a lot easier to achieve.