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Ben Hogan

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Sport: Golf
Nationality: United States
Birth date: 1912-08-13 (Deceased, was 85 years)

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Winning 64 tournaments in his lifetime, Ben Hogan is “The Hawk” of “The Bantam Ben” in the World of Golf. Born on August 13, 1912 in Stephanie, Texas, Hogan won the 1951 and 1953 Masters; the 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953 U.S. Opens; the 1953 British Open and the 1946 and 1948 PGA Championships.

Ben died in July 25, 1997, but his honors and awards preceded him. He was a member of the 2 U.S. Ryder Cup teams and became the captain in 1947, 1949, and 1967. Ben was also awarded as the PGA Tour Player of the Year in 1948, 1950, 1951, and 1953. He was a trophy winner of the 1940, 1941, and 1948 PGA Tour Vardon.

With Ben’s consistent successes he was on top of the money list five times in his career. He knew that can be playing with friends, but he never play friendly games. His very first PGA Tour event was the 1932 Los Angeles Open. In 1950 alone he got to play more that 7 Tour events in the PGA winning 13 times. He was the only professional golf player to win three majors in one season- Masters, British Open, and the U.S. Open.

Growing up in Fort Worth, he was caddying at the Fort Worth Club. He competed against Bryan Nelson, his childhood friend, during the club’s caddie championship, where Nelson won. Though he was exposed to golf at an early age, Ben’s childhood was rather tough. He witnessed a tragic event where his own father committed suicide.

Despite it all and at age 17, Hogan already was a professional golfer playing events in Texas. Only in 1932 did he get to formally join the PGA Tour. In the early times of his career, Hogan was battling with a hook but because of sheer determination and discipline he began winning after that in his controlled style.

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Pat

11 months ago

This review is from: If you play golf once a week or every day this book is a must read, eslaliepcy if you are in the over 50 crowd and your range of motion has suffered from years of neglect, meaning stretching, weight training, fitness walking, biking etc. To jump out of the car and into the cart is an invitation for injury even if you are young and fit. It's just that the young and fit don't break as easily or quickly as the older and stiffer like myself. What I like about this book is that he covers all the aspects of how to play good golf without injury. It is not a cookbook of exercises to make you stronger and more flexible. He really wants you to understand what you are doing to your body when you swing a club and how if not done correctly it can lead to injury. He guides the reader through the process of evaluating how to better care for yourself both off the course, just before you play, and the importance of what comes after a game. The book is divided into three parts. Be sure to read the first part about performance enhancement as it does more than tell you how to get that extra 20 yards off the Tee but how to do it without throwing your back into a spasm. He goes through the mechanics of how your body works for the more challenging part of the game which is mostly the long game. Most golfers are safe from injury when putting but wouldn't it be nice to be able to squat on the ground and read the green? This section goes through the pre game warm up of 5 minutes, the 15 minute warm up if you have time, how to stay limber through 18 holes exercises, and then the cool down. I eslaliepcy like the mental game exercises as too many golfers raise their blood pressure when the wheels come off their game. It not only ruins their game and a good day of golf but often the people that are playing with them get affected by negative attitude. Staying mentally calm is really important in golf and critical to the short game when it co