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When I started this website 12 years ago, I called it “The Pivot Compression Golf Swing”, focusing on the fact that most Tour players, and indeed most of the greats from the past, moved downward at some point during the swing and struck the ball with significantly more posture (more bent over) at impact. This idea met with some resistance from TV announcers who thought Tiger’s problems had a lot to do with his lowering, but in recent years it has become not only accepted but encouraged to “use the ground” for stability, power, and timing. There are three categories of players who lower: some divide the lowering between the backswing and the forward swing (Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan), some do it all in the forward swing (Rory McIlroy, Byron Nelson), and some do it all in the backswing, which is what we see with Tom Hoge. Hoge has a fairly fast, aggressive action with a “hard catch” at the top, and with his iron swings the shaft looks great at the top and in transition, which is why he is ranked fifth in strokes gained approach. With the longer swings he tends to let the clubhead drift toward his head then steepen in transition, something that may be caused by a loose right -hand grip but something that I would expect him to correct going forward. He is on a nice roll the past couple of years, and with a win and a second already this year I would expect to see him at East Lake at the end of the season.
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