Question from Joseph: Ben Hogan
Dear Joseph:
Ben Hogan was one of my early heros. I
saw him play at Roebuck golf course in Birmingham, Alabama when I
was a teenager and I also followed him at the Masters in a final
round pairing with Jimmy Demaret.
Hogan
was the straightest striker of a golf ball I've ever seen. When I
followed him a Roebuck I was able
to get much closer than at the Masters. I stood at his right
profile on virtually every shot he hit that day. He hit some shots
long and short but everything was on line.
Like Lee Janzen and Corey Pavin, Hogan
had a very detached demeanor. On the second hole at the Masters he
hit his second shot fat and only moved that ball a short distance.
He never changed his expression. He simply played his third shot
on that par 5 hole with a 5 iron instead of a pitching wedge.
Hogan was a great analyst. In that
sense there is little missing from his teachings. However Ben Hogan
was not a career golf instructor. He did not succeed in converting
his theories into a method easily utilized by the reader.
An
expert can tell you all sorts of thing about the inner workings of
a computer. However most people simply
want to know how to use the damn thing. That's the difference between "how
to" and "how about." My Automatic Golf Videos are "how
to."
Golfingly Yours,
Bob Mann
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