Ben Hogan Biography

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Ben Hogan shaped the landscape of modern golf. He won arecord-equalling four US Opens, five out of six major tournaments in a single season, and in 1953 came back from a catastrophic car crash to win the Masters, the US Open and the Britsh Open-a feat that's never been repeated. Yet his cool outward demeanour and invicible, laser-guided accuracy masked an enigma: an American hero whose personal life, inner motivation and famed 'secret' were something of a mystery. But in this intimate and acclaimed biography-the first ever authorised by Hogan's family-bestselling author James Dodson discovers a Hogan rarely seen by the public: a warm, jovial and intensely honest man handicapped by elf-doubt, buoyed by the determinitaions to prove his own abilities, and unable to escape a long-buried childhood tragedy-the core of the Hogan 'secret'. It is the definitive portrait of one of the greatest of all golfers, who has inspired his successors from Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods.