I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Fascinating Legend from the People Who Knew Him Best [Hardcover]

Mike Towle (Author)

Book Description

Series: I Remember | Publication Date: March 1, 2000

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.

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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. -- The Joint Forces Journal

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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."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 207 pages
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing; First edition. edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158182078X
• ISBN-13: 978-1581820782
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,172,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hogan - the mystery and mystique, May 5, 2000

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This review is from: I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Fascinating Legend from the People Who Knew Him Best (Hardcover)

This work is an outstanding collection of insights into the pysche of Ben Hogan told from the perspective of his friends and rivals. These stories helped me to understand who Ben Hogan really was and the substantial impact that Hogan had on the development of professional golf. The variety, and depth of the recollections combined to produce a very readable book that is a must for any Hogan enthusiast. I have read other works about Ben Hogan but this collection allowed me to see him in a new way and gave a depth to him that I had previously missed. Pick this one up and I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A duck hook, March 13, 2001

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"lucas_in_blacksburg" (Blacksburg, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Fascinating Legend from the People Who Knew Him Best (Hardcover)

While I understand that any author that wants to write about The Hawk will have his work cut out for him, it seems that Towle took the path of least resistance. A couple of phone calls here, 5 minutes of editing there, and you're left with a book that tells you two things:

1.) Hogan was a gruff but soft-on-the-inside guy.

2.) Hogan got the yips later in life.

Those who want to learn more than those two points would be better off avoiding this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific book, January 28, 2001

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This review is from: I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Fascinating Legend from the People Who Knew Him Best (Hardcover)

The last two reviewers before me couldn't have read the same book I did. The whole point is that while Hogan is such a legendary figure inspiring tremendous curiosity, information about him has come out in bits and pieces over the years. There were dozens of tidbits in this book that were revelatory to me, and I'm someone who lived in Fort Worth many years while the reclusive Mr. Hogan was still alive. I found this book really good and informative, and full of new material. Based on its oral-history format, and the author's own admission in the introduction, this wasn't supposed to be an earthshaking biography full of dirt. Instead, it offers a lot of nifty snapshots about Hogan from people, a number of whom were his close freinds that, while not celebrities, had insights into Hogan's real life that "celebrities" who thought they knew him didn't. This book is definitely worth at least one read.