There is a great interview with Larry Nelson provided in the link below
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He has some great insight and thoughts…I found this following passage very informative and revolved around Ben Hogan yet again
[b] My wife, Gayle, knew I wanted to take up “real golf,” so for Christmas she bought me a set of Jack Nicklaus irons and woods. I didn’t like them because they had leather grips–the driver I used at the range had a rubber grip. So I exchanged the clubs for a set of aluminum-shafted Doug Sanders models. I then joined Pinetree Country Club, which offered inexpensive junior memberships, and played my first round of golf. Watching golf on TV and observing other players, I learned, bit by bit. When the club lost its assistant, the head pro, Bert Seagraves, hired me for $67 a week. I’d show up every day at 5:30 a.m. and play with the superintendent before opening the club at 7:30. Within nine months I broke 70, and within two years I was one of the better players in the area. I didn’t know how good I was, but apparently the members did. They put up some money and sent me, no strings attached, to Florida to play the mini-tours.
Bert gave me a copy of Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons and said, “If you want to learn how to play the game, this is it.” I studied it to death, and it did a lot for me. The amazing thing about the book is the section on swing plane. Instructors are still talking about it. To me, swing plane comes down to something very simple that Davis Love Jr. told me early on: “If you stand upright, don’t swing flat, and if you set up flat, don’t swing upright.” That’s all you need to know about swing plane. Just make sure your plane matches well with the angle of your upper body at address.
There are very few absolute truths about the golf swing. In fact, there are only two I know of. The first is, “Shots don’t lie.” That’s very important when you’re learning the game, because the golf ball tells you exactly what’s happening through impact, and you start fixing it from there. The second is, “Keep the club moving down the line, with as much speed as possible.” I built my entire game around those two keys, and I recommend them to everybody. If you focus on those keys when you’re learning to swing the club, you’re going to be a good player. Simple as that.[/b]
