GOLF'S ALL TIME, PREEMINENT BADASS!! Move over Jack and Tiger. Ben Hogan faced more obstacles than Dickens' famous character Oliver Twist. His estranged father shot himself in an adjacent room when he was just 10 years old. He then sold newspapers til midnight, before uncovering his lifelong obsession with the game of golf. As a caddy Hogan slept in the bunkers over a pile of newspapers to be the first caddy out in the morning. He quit school at 17 to take a shot at professional golf. Again and again, Hogan returned home broke and discouraged. But, never broken!! After marrying Valerie Fox, it took him ten years to finally win on tour. Its a fact that Hogan was down to less than $100 when he and Valerie traveled to Oakland for one last shot. Hogan awoke to see his car on a block with two tires missing!! He hitched a ride with Byron Nelson to the course. On his last fumbling grasp, Hogan won $285 to remain on tour and launch a dizzying ascent to the top. From 1946-48 Hogan won 36 of 99 tournaments he entered!! He was 34 years of age when he finally won a major. Hogan then won nine majors in a seven year period. Six of them after a catastrophic accident that should have killed him!! This is what separates Ben Hogan from every champion in the grand game. Give Jack or Tiger the same pitfalls and they probably would have been shoved to the wayside. Tiger's comeback was a stroll at a County Fair compared to the odyssey of William Ben Hogan. The greatest and grittiest champion the game has ever produced. BAR NONE.
Somehow I hope the Hogan - family will hear this! Thank you so much for a fantastic book! Thank you also TH-cam and all, for sending this over the net!
some learn and become good, some are superb whatever technique or equipment they use...Hogan was obviously one. Each of the legends does it differently and with different equipment.
He’s the best ball striker of all time. Try getting some old 1940s balls and clubs and see how you do. He had to have the best mental approach in order to be the best.
Kenji Otani is telling it straight. As golf equipment and course conditions improved, the game became easier. For pros as well. If Hogan played the game today, he would set the tour on fire!! Otherworldly skill combined with the greatest management the game has ever known.
@@benjaminpease5297 Doesn’t matter.. Much harder to do something when there isn’t a well laid path in front of you.. In that sense Tiger had it very easy compared to Ben Hogan, and Tiger IMHO is ranked #4 on the All-time list right behind Hogan..
I agree 1000 percent!! The fabulous golf writer Al Barkow, in his wonderful book "Golf's Golden Grind," noted that when comparing players, you must consider the milieu, the environment they came from. Ben Hogan's adolescent environment was like an "asphalt jungle." Hogan would have fit neatly into a Dickens novel with Oliver Twist, Fagin, and The Artful Dodger!! To sum it up, it isn't remarkable enough that Hogan "failed miserably then succeeded beyond imagining," in the words of his biographer Curt Sampson. It's that he succeeded beyond imagining under conditions that were beyond imagining!! No other golfer can match the life story of Hogan or achieved as much under what he endured. Of that, I am unequivocally sure. Ben Hogan, the true GOAT OF GOLF.
@newnoggin2 New Noggin, you are definitely using your noggin!! Nicklaus made that statement and stood by it. Why wouldn't he? Jack's indoctrination to Ballstriking 101 happened when he played in the legendary 1960 U S Open at Cherry Hills. Nicklaus nearly won but was overtaken by a late charge from "The King" Arnold Palmer. Meanwhile, Hogan outplayed both Palmer and the 20 year old Golden Bear from tee to green as if they were playing jacks instead of golf. During the last two rounds, Hogan hit 34 consecutive greens in regulation!! Unfortunately, by that time, Hogans putter was like a rusty spatula. Hogan praised the young Jack by saying that he played with a young kid that if he had a brain, he would have won by ten shots. Nicklaus flipped the script by saying that if he'd putted for him, Hogan would have won by double digits. Tiger Woods also remarked that Ben Hogan and Moe Norman were the only players that truly owned the swing. If you want to know how to putt, watch Tiger and Jack. If you want to understand the art of hitting a golf ball, look at Ben Hogan. Class is in session on a TH-cam video near you.
People need to realize that Hogan missed tournaments due to WW2 and of course his accident. Without those he may have set records that equal to or surpass Jack and Tiger.
My reply to you, New Noggin, is "Great minds think alike!!" I could not agree with you more about Hogan being perhaps, OR PROBABLY, the greatest player of all time. Even Jack and Tiger stated that Hogan was the greatest shotmaker of all time. Even his total of 64 wins is scued because of his long Trek to the top. Due to his accident, Hogan played a limited schedule the remainder of his career. As you stated, the war, his accident and the PGA being in match play, limited his major championship total. And by the way, he won his only appearance at the Open Championship. One can easily make the case that it was Hogan, not Jack or Tiger, that was golfs greatest player. That is my opinion and I stand emphatically by it.
@donweaver6818 You have a very valid point about Bobby Locke. Before being badly injured just as Hogan was, Locke drove the tour crazy with his brilliant performances against its leading players. His putting was so good he went one entire season without a three putt!! A combination of putting like Lockes and ball striking like Hogans would make Tiger Woods look like a tabbycat. "Old Muffin Face," as he was disparagingly called, had game seeping out his backside.
I actually think Ben was as good as anyone else that people like to refer as the GOAT. That he could've been the dominant player for the 3.5 years from 1946 to halfway thru 1949 (before the accident) and amassed an insane record in that period. That he could have kept a pistol from his noggin or kept himself from jumping off a bridge, after his father committed suicide, and that he had to fight literally and figuratively for even a crumb of food (he actually was starving, mostly in the early years of trying to make the tour). He "dug out of the [weedy, nasty] ground" the most efficient accurate swing ever.
I caddied for Hogan. It was the most miserable day of my life. Try standing on the range as he uses you for a target. He showed his dislike for me on the first tee. Never even called Arnold Palmer by his name, called him "Fella" You have no idea
I agree, but his supremacy is limited to tee to green. Unfortunately, his putting was not at that level. One amazing statistics is in 11 starts Hogan won 8 majors.
Golf is a game which has always been subject to technology. Tech advances have always lowered scores. The U.S. Open is the national golf championship of the USA. It is the oldest golf competition in America & every year is played in June on a different course. NOTE: Players were not allowed to clean the ball on the green until 1960. Therefore, consider the following: From 1934 to 1961 Ben Hogan played in 21 Opens. He finished with a 72 hole score under 290 in 15 of those for a [.714%] & he won 5X including the 1942 Hale America National Open (substitute for the cancelled Open due to WW2) in which there was local & sectional qualifying & after Hogan won it he was given a medal which looked just like his other ones. From 1960 to 1986 Jack Nicklaus played in 27 Opens & he finished under 290 in 18 of them for a [.667%] & he won 4X. From 1997 to 2020 Tiger Woods played in 20 Opens & finished under 290 in 13 of them for a [.650%] & he won 3X. It also must be pointed out that Hogan finished top ten in 16 consecutive US Open attempts (1940-60) & the longest such streak by anyone else is still 7.
his secret was that he started his downswing by pressing the index finger side of his left hand towards the thumb pad of his right hand. You can see him do it in the swing @13.15
There was another with no disrespect intended.....His name was/is Trevino but: *Did it playing the tour for only 13 years. 1. He grew up poorer. 2. Met his dad once. 3. Lost is fortune 2x 4. Never played a tournament until the Army 5. Hit by lightning.
@@davidfoster2006 That exhibition came down to a couple missed putts. Hogan never beat SNEAD in an actual tournament play off involving the two. It's a fact!!
Officially, Nicklaus was first, Hogan second, and Snead third. Bobby Jones was ranked as the third greatest golfer of all time according to Golf Magazine 2009. I like them all regardless of who was the best or won the most tournaments.
Ben has Charisma? Ok, Hogan was a great golfer, but had few close friends and pretty much kept to himself while playing. He also didn’t do many interviews. So he wasn’t charismatic
He was not charismatic. In fact Hogan cared about three things.. His wife, playing perfect golf and making money playing perfect golf. He played with a chip on his shoulder. On the course he was Ice Cold. He wasn’t mean just focused on winning..
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Ben Hogan is my golf hero. I've tried to copy his swing and it's not easy to master. He made it look easily like all great athletes.
"a swing that defied the laws of physics.."......HUH?
His swing captured the laws of physics....harnessed them in the most efficient manner possible.
it's a figure of speech
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GOLF'S ALL TIME, PREEMINENT BADASS!! Move over Jack and Tiger. Ben Hogan faced more obstacles than Dickens' famous character Oliver Twist. His estranged father shot himself in an adjacent room when he was just 10 years old. He then sold newspapers til midnight, before uncovering his lifelong obsession with the game of golf. As a caddy Hogan slept in the bunkers over a pile of newspapers to be the first caddy out in the morning. He quit school at 17 to take a shot at professional golf. Again and again, Hogan returned home broke and discouraged. But, never broken!! After marrying Valerie Fox, it took him ten years to finally win on tour. Its a fact that Hogan was down to less than $100 when he and Valerie traveled to Oakland for one last shot. Hogan awoke to see his car on a block with two tires missing!! He hitched a ride with Byron Nelson to the course. On his last fumbling grasp, Hogan won $285 to remain on tour and launch a dizzying ascent to the top. From 1946-48 Hogan won 36 of 99 tournaments he entered!! He was 34 years of age when he finally won a major. Hogan then won nine majors in a seven year period. Six of them after a catastrophic accident that should have killed him!! This is what separates Ben Hogan from every champion in the grand game. Give Jack or Tiger the same pitfalls and they probably would have been shoved to the wayside. Tiger's comeback was a stroll at a County Fair compared to the odyssey of William Ben Hogan. The greatest and grittiest champion the game has ever produced. BAR NONE.
Somehow I hope the Hogan - family will hear this! Thank you so much for a fantastic book! Thank you also TH-cam and all, for sending this over the net!
some learn and become good, some are superb whatever technique or equipment they use...Hogan was obviously one. Each of the legends does it differently and with different equipment.
In the shell match between Hogan and Snead you could see how good Hogan was, in my opinion the best golfer of all time.
He’s the best ball striker of all time. Try getting some old 1940s balls and clubs and see how you do. He had to have the best mental approach in order to be the best.
Moe Norman
Kenji Otani is telling it straight. As golf equipment and course conditions improved, the game became easier. For pros as well. If Hogan played the game today, he would set the tour on fire!! Otherworldly skill combined with the greatest management the game has ever known.
Go back and use Bob Jone’s old wood clubs and balls and you will see the greatest golf of all time.
Ben Hogan is the all time GOAT to this day
Yes he is, hope you enjoyed the video!
Definitely ranks above Tiger in the all-time list..
@@benjaminpease5297 Doesn’t matter.. Much harder to do something when there isn’t a well laid path in front of you.. In that sense Tiger had it very easy compared to Ben Hogan, and Tiger IMHO is ranked #4 on the All-time list right behind Hogan..
Yes agree his ball striking was the best ever.
I think he was The Greatest
He was definitely one of the best!
I agree 1000 percent!! The fabulous golf writer Al Barkow, in his wonderful book "Golf's Golden Grind," noted that when comparing players, you must consider the milieu, the environment they came from. Ben Hogan's adolescent environment was like an "asphalt jungle." Hogan would have fit neatly into a Dickens novel with Oliver Twist, Fagin, and The Artful Dodger!! To sum it up, it isn't remarkable enough that Hogan "failed miserably then succeeded beyond imagining," in the words of his biographer Curt Sampson. It's that he succeeded beyond imagining under conditions that were beyond imagining!! No other golfer can match the life story of Hogan or achieved as much under what he endured. Of that, I am unequivocally sure. Ben Hogan, the true GOAT OF GOLF.
Jack Nicklaus, who should know, said without a doubt, that Hogan was the greatest shot maker he ever saw. That is enough for me.
@newnoggin2 New Noggin, you are definitely using your noggin!! Nicklaus made that statement and stood by it. Why wouldn't he? Jack's indoctrination to Ballstriking 101 happened when he played in the legendary 1960 U S Open at Cherry Hills. Nicklaus nearly won but was overtaken by a late charge from "The King" Arnold Palmer. Meanwhile, Hogan outplayed both Palmer and the 20 year old Golden Bear from tee to green as if they were playing jacks instead of golf. During the last two rounds, Hogan hit 34 consecutive greens in regulation!! Unfortunately, by that time, Hogans putter was like a rusty spatula. Hogan praised the young Jack by saying that he played with a young kid that if he had a brain, he would have won by ten shots. Nicklaus flipped the script by saying that if he'd putted for him, Hogan would have won by double digits. Tiger Woods also remarked that Ben Hogan and Moe Norman were the only players that truly owned the swing. If you want to know how to putt, watch Tiger and Jack. If you want to understand the art of hitting a golf ball, look at Ben Hogan. Class is in session on a TH-cam video near you.
People need to realize that Hogan missed tournaments due to WW2 and of course his accident. Without those he may have set records that equal to or surpass Jack and Tiger.
My reply to you, New Noggin, is "Great minds think alike!!" I could not agree with you more about Hogan being perhaps, OR PROBABLY, the greatest player of all time. Even Jack and Tiger stated that Hogan was the greatest shotmaker of all time. Even his total of 64 wins is scued because of his long Trek to the top. Due to his accident, Hogan played a limited schedule the remainder of his career. As you stated, the war, his accident and the PGA being in match play, limited his major championship total. And by the way, he won his only appearance at the Open Championship. One can easily make the case that it was Hogan, not Jack or Tiger, that was golfs greatest player. That is my opinion and I stand emphatically by it.
Well, They kicked Bobby Locke off the PGA tour because he beat every bodies brains out so there may well be an asterisk behind Hogans achievements.
@donweaver6818 You have a very valid point about Bobby Locke. Before being badly injured just as Hogan was, Locke drove the tour crazy with his brilliant performances against its leading players. His putting was so good he went one entire season without a three putt!! A combination of putting like Lockes and ball striking like Hogans would make Tiger Woods look like a tabbycat. "Old Muffin Face," as he was disparagingly called, had game seeping out his backside.
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Great video
I actually think Ben was as good as anyone else that people like to refer as the GOAT. That he could've been the dominant player for the 3.5 years from 1946 to halfway thru 1949 (before the accident) and amassed an insane record in that period. That he could have kept a pistol from his noggin or kept himself from jumping off a bridge, after his father committed suicide, and that he had to fight literally and figuratively for even a crumb of food (he actually was starving, mostly in the early years of trying to make the tour). He "dug out of the [weedy, nasty] ground" the most efficient accurate swing ever.
Thanks for your comment!
Well said!
Hogan was born in Dublin TX, approx 19 miles from
Stephenville
Hey, how did you like the video?
Great video
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Love the video
I caddied for Hogan. It was the most miserable day of my life. Try standing on the range as he uses you for a target. He showed his dislike for me on the first tee. Never even called Arnold Palmer by his name, called him "Fella"
You have no idea
I think he’s the Greatest of all time
So do I!
I agree, but his supremacy is limited to tee to green. Unfortunately, his putting was not at that level. One amazing statistics is in 11 starts Hogan won 8 majors.
Moe Norman and Ben Hogan were two of the best ever at golf.
This guy has no clue what he's talking about
Golf is a game which has always been subject to technology. Tech advances have always lowered scores. The U.S. Open is the national golf championship of the USA. It is the oldest golf competition in America & every year is played in June on a different course. NOTE: Players were not allowed to clean the ball on the green until 1960. Therefore, consider the following: From 1934 to 1961 Ben Hogan played in 21 Opens. He finished with a 72 hole score under 290 in 15 of those for a [.714%] & he won 5X including the 1942 Hale America National Open (substitute for the cancelled Open due to WW2) in which there was local & sectional qualifying & after Hogan won it he was given a medal which looked just like his other ones. From 1960 to 1986 Jack Nicklaus played in 27 Opens & he finished under 290 in 18 of them for a [.667%] & he won 4X. From 1997 to 2020 Tiger Woods played in 20 Opens & finished under 290 in 13 of them for a [.650%] & he won 3X. It also must be pointed out that Hogan finished top ten in 16 consecutive US Open attempts (1940-60) & the longest such streak by anyone else is still 7.
his secret was that he started his downswing by pressing the index finger side of his left hand towards the thumb pad of his right hand. You can see him do it in the swing @13.15
There was another with no disrespect intended.....His name was/is Trevino but: *Did it playing the tour for only 13 years.
1. He grew up poorer.
2. Met his dad once.
3. Lost is fortune 2x
4. Never played a tournament until the Army
5. Hit by lightning.
Hey, thanks for your comment!
Great vide well done.o
I accidentaly have the exact same swing as Hogan.
SAM SNEAD HAD THE BEST SWING...HOGAN HIMSELF ADMITTED IT. 😮
Should I make a documentary about Sam Snead aswell?
@@teetimeHQ MAKE one of SNEAD, NELSON AND ESPECIALLY MIÇKEY WRIGHT.
@@Frank-pi2gzadded her to my list!
But Hogan still beat him easy in the Shell match.
@@davidfoster2006 That exhibition came down to a couple missed putts. Hogan never beat SNEAD in an actual tournament play off involving the two. It's a fact!!
Officially, Nicklaus was first, Hogan second, and Snead third. Bobby Jones was ranked as the third greatest golfer of all time according to Golf Magazine 2009. I like them all regardless of who was the best or won the most tournaments.
Bob Jones was the greatest, not taking anything away from Ben
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Hogan Would be embarrassed by these comments.
don't know if withdrawn and taciturn are charismatic, arnold palmer was charismatic not sure u could say the ice man was
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Whos's your Favorite Golfer?
Ben Hogan. I never get tired of watching him swing. He’s a human machine.
@@KenjiOtanihe's one of a kind, that's for sure!
Ben has Charisma? Ok, Hogan was a great golfer, but had few close friends and pretty much kept to himself while playing. He also didn’t do many interviews. So he wasn’t charismatic
Considering the odds 1/(2^6,400,000) there will never be any human in the history of earth repeated….
And as far as prodigious ball strikers that can’t putt? We’ve seen a plethora of those…
He was not charismatic. In fact Hogan cared about three things.. His wife, playing perfect golf and making money playing perfect golf. He played with a chip on his shoulder. On the course he was Ice Cold.
He wasn’t mean just focused on winning..
Cat-y Texas? Thanks AI
Bantam is the correct spelling. Was this Ai generated, so bad.
Ai
Great, but Jones was better
Terrible and cheesy graphics.
So much bs