Ben Hogan is up with Jack Nicklaus as one of the greatest golfers of all time. He equalled the record of four US Open wins, once won five out of six major tournaments in one... more
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Advantages: Excellent, well written, well researched biography. Disadvantages: Not a thing
~ ~ Ben Hogan was born in 1912 in Dublin, Ohio, the youngest of three children. His father owned the local blacksmith’s shop, and there was nothing in the young Hogan’s childhood that would have indicated that as an adult he would become (arguably) the greatest professional golfer of the 20th century.
He has long been one of my favourite golfers, and although I never had the opportunity to see him play in the flesh during his heyday in the late ... ...father.
~ ~ But Ben Hogan was an enigma. A man who played golf like a god, and who achieved fantastic success in his life both on and off the golf course, he was also a private man who shunned the limelight, and who had an abiding hatred for the media and press all his life. He never played to the gallery, and in all his years as a professional golfer it was rare sight indeed to see his granite like features crease into a smile. Not for Hogan the ...
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Ben Hogan is up with Jack Nicklaus as one of the greatest golfers of all time. He equalled the record of four US Open wins, once won five out of six major tournaments in one season, and is credited with effectively defining the modern game of golf. James Dodson's magisterial biography, written by the bestselling author of Final Rounds, is the first to be authorised by Hogan's family, and reveals the complex character behind a golfer legendary for his inscrutable, steely public persona. Dodson shows how the dauntless determination that saw Hogan to four US Open victories masked a man ever haunted by a long-buried childhood tragedy, and brings out the miracle of his fightback after a catastrophic car accident to win the Masters, US Open and British Open all in 1953. Above all, he lays to rest the notion of Ben Hogan as an austere, impassive golf-machine, uncovering a jovial man with a charitable spirit and sharp business sense. Intimate, eloquent and definitive, this is the final word on one of the greatest golfers of all time.
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