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Ben Hogan was a 4-time PGA Player of Year; one of only five players to win all four Grand Slam titles. Hogan won 4 U.S. Opens, 2 Masters, 2 PGAs and 1 British Open between 1946-53. He was one of only two players to win three of the four current majors in one year when he won Masters, U.S. Open and British Open in 1953. Known as The Hawk for his small stature and steely stare, he was nearly killed on Feb. 2, 1949 in a car accident. He came back to win U.S. Open in 1950. 3rd on all-time list with 63 career wins.
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Ben Hogan is widely acknowledged to have been the greatest ball striker ever to have played golf. Although he had a formidable record as a tournament winner, it is this aspect of Hogan which mostly underpins his modern reputation.
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Ben Hogan had a thorough knowledge of his game and through long hours on ‘Misery Hill’, developed a clinicians approach to the game. Nothing was left to chance and it was said he looked upon each course as an affront to his golfmanship. Sarcastically, rival jealous pros nicknamed him ‘The Surveyor’ and stung by the tag, claimed it a brutal tag to be placed upon a guy just trying to be the best he could be ! An example of his meticulous approach to golf is best illustrated by his sole appearance in the British Open, at Carnoustie in 1953. Having never used the British size 1.62 inch ball in competition, he gave himself two weeks to acclimatise to its different feel and extra distance obtainable. Used to the US size 1.68 inch ball, he was truly amazed at the extra 15 yards he gained with the long Irons.
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In 1948 alone, Ben Hogan won 10 tournaments, including the U.S. Open at Riviera Country Club, a course known as "Hogan's Alley" because of his success there. Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, a modern PGA tournament venue, is ... known as "Hogan's Alley" and may have the better claim to the nickname. Hogan's Alley is also the name of an FBI training complex, and the term has its origins in the late 19th century in the form of a cartoon strip, only later being matched with courses at which Hogan excelled. The sixth hole at Carnoustie, a par five from the tee of which Hogan took a famously difficult line off during each of his rounds in the 1953 Open Championship, has also recently been renamed Hogan's Alley.
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Ben Hogan was once playing in a pro-am where one of his partners asked him all day what club he was using. Finally, on the eighteenth hole, a long par 3, after hitting his regulation shot, Hogan proceeded to put a ball on the green with every club in his bag. He looked at his astonished amateur partner and told him that it didn't matter what club he used, but rather what the shot had to be in order to make club selection.
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The re-birth of a Ben Hogan classic, the Sure-Out wedge is designed to get out of trouble with ease. Modeled after the popular Sure-Out wedges of yesteryear but utilizing today's latest technology, the Sure Out wedge provides unmatched confidence and playability to get out of trouble from any lie. Performance that is worthy of its ancestry; Sure-Out Wedges by Ben Hogan.
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