Afternoons with Mr. Hogan
Author: Vasquez, Jody
ISBN: 9781592401130
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Mar 2005
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Ben Hogan's former ball shagger recounts firsthand stories of the golf legend-andreveals, for the first time, Hogan's Swing Secret, a source of mystery to golfers for more than fifty years./b>p>Ben Hogan's pro golf record is legendary. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he celebrated sixty-three tournament wins and became known as a man of few words and fewer close friends. Most of what we know about Hogan has been based on myth and speculation. Until now./p>p>In the 1960s, though Hogan's competitive career was over, he kept the practice habits that made him famous and remade modern competitive golf. He hired seventeen-year-old Jody Vasquez to help. Each day, after driving to a remote part of the course at Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan would spend hours hitting balls and Vasquez would retrieve them. There, and over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Hogan taught Jody the mechanics of his famous swing and shared his thoughts on playing, practicing, and course management-unknowingly revealing much about his character, values, and beliefs, and the events that shaped them./p>p>In i>Afternoons with Mr. Hogan/i>, Jody Vasquez shares dozens of stories about Hogan, from the way he practiced, selected his clubs, and interacted with other star players to his little-known humor and generosity. Combining the gentle insight of Tom Kite's i>A Fairway to Heaven/i> (which recalls Kite's golf education under Harvey Penick) with the sage perspective of Penick's own i>Little Red Book/i>, Vasquez's tribute is funny, poignant, and full of advice for golfers of all levels./p>
ISBN: 9781592401130
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Mar 2005
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Ben Hogan's former ball shagger recounts firsthand stories of the golf legend-andreveals, for the first time, Hogan's Swing Secret, a source of mystery to golfers for more than fifty years./b>p>Ben Hogan's pro golf record is legendary. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he celebrated sixty-three tournament wins and became known as a man of few words and fewer close friends. Most of what we know about Hogan has been based on myth and speculation. Until now./p>p>In the 1960s, though Hogan's competitive career was over, he kept the practice habits that made him famous and remade modern competitive golf. He hired seventeen-year-old Jody Vasquez to help. Each day, after driving to a remote part of the course at Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan would spend hours hitting balls and Vasquez would retrieve them. There, and over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Hogan taught Jody the mechanics of his famous swing and shared his thoughts on playing, practicing, and course management-unknowingly revealing much about his character, values, and beliefs, and the events that shaped them./p>p>In i>Afternoons with Mr. Hogan/i>, Jody Vasquez shares dozens of stories about Hogan, from the way he practiced, selected his clubs, and interacted with other star players to his little-known humor and generosity. Combining the gentle insight of Tom Kite's i>A Fairway to Heaven/i> (which recalls Kite's golf education under Harvey Penick) with the sage perspective of Penick's own i>Little Red Book/i>, Vasquez's tribute is funny, poignant, and full of advice for golfers of all levels./p>
