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Ben Hogan's former ball shagger recounts firsthand stories of the golf legend—and reveals, for the first time, Hogan's Swing Secret, a source of mystery to golfers for more than fifty years. Ben Hogan's pro golf record is legendary. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he celebrated sixty-three tournament wins and became known as a man of few words and fewer close friends. Most of what we know about Hogan has been based on myth and speculation. Until now. In the 1960s, though Hogan's competitive career was over, he kept the practice habits that made him famous and remade modern competitive golf. He hired seventeen-year-old Jody Vasquez to help. Each day, after driving to a remote part of the course at Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan would spend hours hitting balls and Vasquez would retrieve them. There, and over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Hogan taught Jody the mechanics of his famous swing and shared his thoughts on playing, practicing, and course...
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Golfers, Anecdotes, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction, Biography, Golf, biography, Golf, anecdotesPeople
Ben Hogan (1912-1997), Jody VasquezPlaces
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Afternoons with Mr. Hogan
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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in English
1101111100 9781101111109
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Afternoons with Mr. Hogan: A Boy, A Golfing Legend and the Lessons of a Lifetime
March 25, 2004, Gotham
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1592400515 9781592400515
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