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Nice find KOC. So Hogan did not place the ball vis a vis the left foot per say, but low point. Interesting. Perhaps an insight he acquired after the publishing of the Five Lessons. He kept thinking about things, refining, right until the end I bet.

Three inches back from the low point in the arc for every shot would not take into account ball position adjustments for various Angles of Attack. Im thinking that while this is an interesting quote given the context of this fellows story about Hogan's precision, this statement is not, can not be, true as a general rule for Hogan. Sure as shootin, Hogan moved the ball around in his stance given the requirements of the shot at hand. Low pinch, high floater etc. Low point vs ball position. Machine adjustments.

I saw an interesting thing at this weeks Memorial Tourney. On Saturday Matt Bettencourt had hit his ball perilously close to the creek on 14. At the time was the leader and going along very, very nicely. The ball was on grass but just shy of the creek some 75 yards or so from the green. Problem was he couldnt get his left foot in front of the ball. Or should I say he couldnt get his left shoulder, low point in front of the ball without risking falling in. After some head scratching and fiddling around he tried to time an intentional downwards head bob to alter his low point. An interesting solution, but it didnt quite work this time around. The resulting skull left him in a greenside bunker and lead to the loss of a stroke.