Sunday, July 13, 2025

Hogan and the MA2 Golf Swing

 


The graphic above (from Hogan's 5 Lessons) really sums up the MA2 (Muscular Advantage 2) Golf Swing from the Laws of Golf. Just a quick summary: if you like to lift weights and gain both muscle and fat easily (Endomorphic Body Type) and you do not look like Craig Stadler or you are just an older, less flexible golfer, your are an MA2. The MA2 golfer has to make some changes from the canonical tour player golf swing which (in my opinion) does not fit many recreational golfers body types. If you learned golf by reading (maybe Hogan's 5 Lessons or Jack Niklaus' Play Better Golf or Arnold Palmer's Play Great Golf) you will need to make some adjustments to what you have read for your personal body configuration (a point Lee Trevino makes in the introduction to the current edition of Hogan's 5 Lessons). Here are some suggestions for the Hogan system.