Video in Hank Haney's voice names Hogan, Norman, Trevino, Nicklaus and Woods

A video posted on the YouTube channel TrucLy presents Hank Haney's list of the five golfers who most shaped how he understands the game. It is told in Haney's first person, and it frames the list around lessons rather than trophies. TrucLy is not Haney's own channel, so everything below is what the video says.

Ben Hogan

The narrator says he studied under Jim Hardy in Chicago in his early 20s and read Hogan's Five Lessons about 30 times. The video's main point is ball flight. It says Mark O'Meara once asked Hogan for the correct ball flight and Hogan answered "a draw," and that golfers spent years copying Hogan's manufactured fade instead. The narrator also notes a disagreement: Hogan used the left arm as his swing plane reference, while he uses the club shaft.

Moe Norman

The video calls Norman's single-plane ball striking unmatched and says the PGA Tour essentially pushed him out to the Canadian tour. It cites Tiger Woods saying only Hogan and Norman truly owned their swings, and quotes Norman: "I own my swing, it doesn't own me."

Lee Trevino

Trevino learned through money matches on public courses in Dallas and won the 1968 U.S. Open. The video uses his open, aimed-left setup to make a teaching point: if your swing repeats, you can find your aim. It also recalls Trevino being struck by lightning in 1975 and winning the 1984 PGA Championship at 44.

Jack Nicklaus

The video credits Nicklaus less for his 18 majors than for almost never making the catastrophic shot at the wrong moment. It calls him the second-greatest putter the narrator has seen.

Tiger Woods

The final section covers the coaching years, spring 2004 to May 2010, including six major wins. The video says Woods was the worst of more than 200 tour players at carrying his range game to the course, and still won 45% of his starts in that span. It picks the 2006 Open at Hoylake, where Woods mostly kept driver in the bag, as the best tournament he played, and names Woods the greatest putter it has seen.

What to take from it

For sim golfers, the Trevino and Woods sections are the practical ones. Build a shot shape you can repeat and aim for it. And test your simulator practice against real conditions, since the video's own example is that even Woods saw a gap between the range and the course. Treat the quotes as the video's account, not as a verified interview.