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More than 100 original stories and keen observations have been offered for this book, making it a golf enthusiast's dream.


Book Description
A beautiful hardcover book and collector's item, "I Remember Ben Hogan" is an oral history of an amazing golf legend. Many people were touched by Ben Hogan although few were truly able to connect with him. To a select few, he was a shy, sly mentor, able and willing to reveal golf-swing secrets with a grip and a rare grin. Author Mike Towle uncovers more than 100 original stories regarding golf's most famous legend.


From the Inside Flap
Ben Hogan might have been the greatest golfing legend of the twentieth century, if not its most reluctant hero. Brilliant and innovative, revered and respected, yet obsessively reserved and reclusive, Hogan was known as much for being unavailable to the public as anything else. No matter how he was perceived as a man,however, Hogan's record as a champion is indisputable: four U.S. Open titles (five if you as him); two Masters triumphs; a victory in his only British Open appearance; and more than 60 career wins, many of them coming after a devastating 1949 automobile accident. In "I Remember Ben Hogan," dozen's of Hogan's confidants, fellow golf pros, business associates, and acquaintances candidly reveal their memories of and insights into "the Hawk."


About the Author
Mike Towle is a veteran sportswriter and author whose previous books include "True Champions," "The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book," and "I Remember Augusta." Also a former newspaper reporter, Towle has covered golf for the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" and "The National." He has also written several articles for "Golf World," "Golf Shop Operations," "Golf Journal," and "Golf Illustrated" magazines. President and publisher of TowleHouse Publishing Company, Towle lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and son.


Excerpted from I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Famous Legend From The People Who Knew Him Best by Mike Towle. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Actually, Ben Hogan needs no introduction. One thing we know: Few people really knew Hogan. But a few hundred million know of him. If they don't know about him from the memorable, Hogan-out-of-hiding television commercials he did in the late 1980s touting his namesake company's new Edge clubs, they are at least familiar with his place in golf history. Two Masters titles. A British Open victory at his only try. Four U.S. Open titles (or was it actually five as he claimed?). The epic association-not friendship really- with fellow Fort Worth-area native Byron Nelson. three major victories in 1953, then skipping the fourth. Shooting a 66 at Augusta at age fifty-four. Shooting a 64 at Shady Oaks when he was sixty-five. We know that his dad, Chester Hogan, committed suicide when Ben was nine, and it is speculated that little Ben was in the same room when Chester pulled the trigger. When know that Hogan made himself great by digging his game out of the ground. Then there was! the Greyhound Bus collison with his Cadillac.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Ben Hogan might have been the greatest golfing legend of the twentieth century, if not golf's most reluctant hero. Brilliant and innovative, revered and respected, yet obsessively reserved and reclusive, Hogan was known as much for being unavailable to the public as for anything else.

No matter how he was perceived as a man, however, Hogan's record as a golf champion is indisputable: four U.S. Open titles (five if you asked him); two Masters triumphs; a victory in his only British Open appearance; and more than sixty career wins, many of them coming after a devastating 1949 automobile accident.