{"id":215,"date":"2012-08-13T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2019-04-13T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T03:58:18","slug":"happy-100th-birthday-ben-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/happy-100th-birthday-ben-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th Birthday, Ben Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you in the Ben Hogan fan club, today is your day. It is the 100th anniversary of the Master’s birth, in Stephenville, Texas (about 60 miles SW of Fort Worth). Hogan is the ultimate self-made player, winner of five U.S. Opens (the Hale in 1942 counts), numerous other major titles and PGA titles, and probably the most iconic golfer of all time.<\/p>\n

There is so much to be said about him, that I don’t know where to begin, and you probably know all of it, anyway. I’ll just let some famous pictures do the talking.<\/p>\n

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Hitting a 1-iron into the 72nd green at Merion in 1950. Photo by Hy Peskin.<\/p>\n

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This is how it’s done.<\/p>\n

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The Hogan downswing from the Wonderful World of Golf episode in 1965<\/a> where he hit every fairway and every green.<\/p>\n

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Ben Hogan (1912-1997)<\/p>\n

See this video of his swing on YouTube:
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5s7o2HFbh4<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Hogan biographies:
\nBen Hogan: An American Life<\/a>, by James Dodson
\nHogan<\/a>, by Curt Sampson<\/p>\n

See also:
\nMiracle at Merion<\/a>, by David Barrett
\nand
\nAfternoons with Mr. Hogan<\/a> by Jody Vasquez<\/p>\n

For the 85 photos that were used as models for the Anthony Ravielli drawings in Five Lessons<\/i>,
\nThe Fundamentals of Hogan<\/a>, by David Leadbetter<\/p>\n

and finally,
\nFive Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf<\/a>, by Ben Hogan<\/p>\n

Visit www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you in the Ben Hogan fan club, today is your day. It is the 100th anniversary of the Master’s birth, in Stephenville, Texas (about 60 miles SW of Fort Worth). Hogan is the ultimate self-made player, winner of five U.S. Opens (the Hale in 1942 counts), numerous other major titles and PGA … Continue reading Happy 100th Birthday, Ben Hogan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hogan_Merion_1_iron_better.ashx_.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}