Ben Hogan Swing Analysis vs. Gary Woodland?

It seems like every so often some well meaning teaching guru has an epiphany that he has found a modern golf swing that is similar if not exactly like Ben Hogans. But once we see the actual swings side by side we see that the swings are nothing alike. A few years ago Sports Illustrated senior writer Curt Sampson did a Hogan swing comparison with Chad Campbell. Poor Chad hasn't been able to bust a grape since. Prior to that it Jonathan Byrd. While Byrd has had some recent success, he didn't do much after those early comparison's to Mr. Hogan. It's kind of like the EA Sports Madden jinx.

I think we have finally found a swing comparison that doesa pretty good job. Not pretty good, but really good in my opinion.  John Dochety has been providing some of the best high-speed swing video on the internet this year. He spent several hours camped out at Augusta National this April on the 4th and 16th holes. He has done a swing comparison vs Mr. Hogan using a relatively unknown tour pro named Gary Woodland. Woodland won earlier this year at The Transitions Championship and I'm quite sure there are more to come. This guy is one of the physically strongest players to come along in some time. I never got to watch Ben Hogan hit golf balls live or with todays high definition video technology, but from what I hear from people who did, he was the type of ball striker who made you say " wow, that guy is strong!" You can just tell by looking at his hands and arms that he could have been a pipe fitter or steel worker. My buddy Travis Womble played and won on the Hooters Tour in 2000 and he told me that you didn't have to see who was hitting the balls on the range to know who it was. He says that when Chad Campbell was hitting balls you knew by the sound that he was present. Of course Chad has struggled the last few years but at one time he was the most dominant player on any professional tour in the world. If I'm not mistaken he won 13 events on the Hooters Tour in 2000. In that span he won 6 or 7 times consecutively.  Anyway, this is some pretty compelling stuff and John Dochety is the man behind the curtain.