This video from Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf, shows two great adversaries from the 1930s to the 1960s match up to show a very flexible Sam Snead and a well conditioned ball-striking machine in Ben Hogan. What the video shows beneath the surface is that the God given talent of Sam Snead, a man who was seen kicking an 8-foot ceiling from a standstill and who God gave the flexibility of an orangutan, which made Snead the most natural player of all time matched against a manmade gold swing that created the flexibility in the correct set of muscles that were used in a powerful and accurate golf swing. Very rarely do you see in golf such a natural player as Sam Snead taken on a man who worked tirelessly to unlock the mysteries of the golf swing.
In this video, Ben Hogan proves that the manmade swing was superior. He hit every faraway and every green in regulation. Gene Sarazen was quoted as saying, “It was the finest round of golf I had ever witnessed.” This from a man who won all four majors. Being on Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf, Sarazen not only saw the greats, but he also got to see the contemporaries that would become the greats of their era. Thank goodness Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf had the camera’s rolling to see a body of work by an artist, by a genius who found the blueprint for the perfect swing.
