Ben Hogan's Magical Device: The Real Secret to Hogan's Swing Finally Revealed Hardcover – May 26, 2009

All three of his books use same narrative, photos and comments. Don’t waste your money just buy this one because this book contains everything that is included in the three books. Nice try, write three books with different titles but, all three are virtually identical with a few exceptions, not many. Explains in excruciating detail and must but closely read to understand. Summary not very good.

Well written and easily exp!ained. Somehow, the club face squares up and great contact is made. Really helped my putting.

This book is a bit tiresome to read, but generally informative. There are, however, better books regarding/ analyzing Hogan's swing. Also, I doubt what the author claims is the secret to Hogan's swing is accurate . In fact, I think the secret to Hogan's swing is fairly obvious: Ben Hogan was making it. "The Final Missing Piece Of Ben Hogan's Swing' is a much better book on the subject.

I have read both Power Golf, Five Fundamentals and countless other Hogan books. I am 75 and have been struggling on the course the last few years. I just completed reading this book yesterday. I never realized how far I had stayed from the model. This book explains the Five Fundamentals like no other. I shot 42 on a par 73 nine today. I had never bested 50 before this. Highly recommend this for every suffer if he just pays attention to what is said.Thank you Mr Hunt

I've had searched for this ball striking consistency from the first ball strike where everything fell into place, not by design, but by trial and error after having studied the Fundamentals. One drive straight down the fairway for over 300 yards, as measured by the foursome I was playing with. No, I bogeyed the hole! Love the simplicity of the explanation and instruction. The pictures and immensely to understanding the "Magical Device". Highly recommend the reading!

This is a good book outlining Hogan's golf swing. However, Ted Hunt's 2nd book is Much better!

Excellent interpretation of the "magical device", including some good stories. A good read especially for a beginner, and also the experienced golfer.

Some of the information was familiar but learned some new stuff too. Overall was very helpful. Thanks.Dana

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Mr Hunts book promises a lot and delivers very little. If you already own Modern Fundamentals you will learn very little more from this book. The little extra that it does offer would barely create an appendix to Hogans original book let alone justify a book in it's own right. The remainder is padded out with often irrelevant pictures, cliched anecdotes, and personal experiences linked to golfers other than Ben Hogan (who cares if Vijay Singh once gave a taxi driver a 30 cent tip!). You will also find that Mr Hunt is extremely repetetive in his analysis of Hogan's swing and his descriptions often typify the 'paralysis by analysis' adage.I would also warn against obtaining Mr Hunt's second book about Ben Hogans game 'from 120 yards' if you already own 'Magical Device'. I made the mistake of assuming that they were 'companion' works that would complement each other and offer something different but found that they were virtually identical in content.(sadly I purchased both together prior to finding out how dissapointing the first one was) The two books cover the same ground, often use the same pictures and illustrations and bizarrely even use the same anecdotes and stories almost word for word. They are virtually the same book with a different cover.Stick to Modern fundamentals and possibly try John Jacobs '50 years of Wisdom'.

The info in the book is OK. I still cannot figure out what is meant by Magical Device (although it is said many times in the book). Not really a good instructional book, but has some otherwise good info.n

There is some truth in the above reviwer's comments. This magical device is really a focus on the attempt by Hogan to keep the hands, arms and upper torso in a tight unit so there is increased consistency in ball striking. I shall be on the range today to look at this aspect which I noticed when I played with a scratch player a week ago. The section in "Five lessons" is in Stance and Posture and the idea is to have a grip which alows the two forarms to look upwards- the dimples in the inner elbow. When you rotate the forearms up with Hogan's grip you get tight triangle which aids the one-piece takeaway. The fact that you may argue Hogan fails to do this all the time is maybe partially correct but you do see it in many swing videos of Hogan and you have to watch face-on a impact.The truly talented (i.e. the masters) of any sport always break the rules (flavour their style into the mix) but then again that is what they have licence to do. Applying this Magical Device to all aspects of the game should work as the swing becomes compact and reliable. In fact it has to, as the use of too much armsy and wrist action in the swing is eliminated and the chance of coming over the top becomes minimised. Basically golf does not want wrists involved outide 50 meters from the green at all as they add to inconsistent action. In the short game there are wrist options as Phil M uses in his DVD Short Game Secrets.The value of the book is in this focus. The platitudes on Hogan are not that interesting and the author is a card-carrying, passionate follower of Hogan. This is no bad thing as long as you realise that there are many good players and Hogan came to his Lessons from a severe hooking problem which he cured. Most of us slicers arrive at a better game from the opposite direction and we may not necessarily meet at the middle ground.A second-hand purchase is no mistake but go for Leadbetters Hogan book if you are a fact and techno-junky. This is the real McCoy of a book.

This is, I suppose, an interesting enough way to pass the time on a commuter train, but the reader won't find much in here to improve their game. The author spends a lot of time recalling anecdotes about old time players (not just Hogan), which themselves are interesting but not enough to justify buying the book. The instruction pieces, when they do come, are not well explained and appear to be just another way to jump on the "Hogan's secret" myth to make some money.If you want to learn to hit the ball like Hogan, study videos of him swinging, buy his "Five Lessons" book, and then be prepared to spend the time on the practice range like he did to work out how to make the ball do what you want it to.