Ben Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he exhibited on the course awed spectators and fellow players alike.
In this extraordinary book--the first full-scale biography of the enigmatic Hogan in twenty years--Curt Sampson explores the milestones of Hogan's life--his father's suicide, his miraculous comeback after his brush with death, his many triumphs on the Tour. Sampson draws on interviews with fellow golf legends Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead to present an in-depth portrait of a man with bullet-proof confidence and singlemindedness, a man who turned the negatives he encountered into a life of glory and achievement.
- ISBN10 1558538674
- ISBN13 9781558538672
- Publish Date 9 May 2001 (first published 5 May 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutledge Hill Press,U.S.
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English