Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan was born in Dublin, Texas, United States on August 13th, 1912 and is the Golfer. At the age of 84, Ben Hogan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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William Ben Hogan (September 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997), an American professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the best players in the game's history.
Hogan is known for his profound influence on golf swing theory and his legendary ball-striking ability. His nine professional major championships crown him for fourth all-time, behind only Jack Nicklaus (18), Tiger Woods (15) and Walter Hagen (11).
He is one of only five golfers to win all four major championships: the Masters Tournament, The Open (despite only playing once), the United States Open, and the PGA Championship.
Nicklaus, Woods, Player, and Gene Sarazen are the other four players.
Early life and character
Hogan was born in Stephenville, Texas, as the third and youngest child of Chester and Clara (Williams) Hogan. His father was a blacksmith, and his family lived ten miles (16 km) southwest in Dublin until 1921, when they moved seventy miles (110 km) northeast to Fort Worth. Chester, Hogan's father, died after a self-inflicted gunshot at the family's house when he was nine years old in 1922. Chester committed suicide in front of him, which some (including Hogan biographer James Dodson) have attributed to his introverted personality in later years.
Since his father's death, the family suffered financial difficulties, and the children took jobs to support their seamstress mother make ends meet. At age 14, the older brother Royal left school to provide office supplies by bicycle, and nine-year-old Ben sold newspapers after school at the nearby train station. At age eleven at Glen Garden Country Club, a nine-hole course seven miles (11 km) to the south, he was led to caddying by a friend. Byron Nelson, later a tour competitor, was one of his fellow caddies at Glen Garden. In December 1927, when both were fifteen, the two would meet for the lead at the annual Christmas caddie tournament. On the ninth and final hole, Nelson tied with a 30-foot (9 m) putt. They won by a stroke on the final green instead of sudden death; Nelson sank another big putt on the 18th green to win by a stroke.
Nelson was given the exclusive junior membership of Glen Garden's members in the spring. Hogan was unable to supervise caddies aged 16 and older in August 1928, so he converted his game to three scrubby daily-fee courses: Katy Lake, Worth Hills, and Z-Boaz.
Career-threatening accident
Despite the break in his career as a result of World War II and a near-fatal car accident, Hogan's prime years from 1938 to 1959 won 63 professional golf tournaments. Hogan served in the US Army Air Forces from March 1943 to June 1945; he was stationed at Fort Worth and became a utility pilot with the rank of lieutenant.
After a losing start to the 1949 Phoenix Open on Monday, Hogan and his wife Valerie survived a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus east of Van Horn, Texas. Hogan had reduced his speed in the poor visibility ground fog on Wednesday morning; the bus was attempting to pass another vehicle on a narrow bridge, leaving no place to escape the crash. In order to shield her, Hogan threw himself across Valerie. If not doing so, he may have died, but the steering column punctured the driver's seat in their latest Cadillac sedan.
Hogan, 36, was born with a double fractured pelvis, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots: he would suffer lifelong circulation problems and other physical limitations. His doctors said he would never walk again, let alone play golf competitively. Although Hogan was in the hospital in El Paso, his life was put into jeopardy due to a blood clot infection that caused doctors to tie off the vena cava. He left the hospital on the first of April, 59 days after the shooting, and returned to Fort Worth by train.
In November 1949, Hogan recovered his fitness by extensive walking and resumed his golfing. He returned to the PGA Tour to begin the 1950s with a ties over 72 holes with Sam Snead over 72 holes, but he missed the 18-hole playoff, which was postponed due to course conditions.
Career and records
Ben Hogan won ten tournaments alone in 1948, including the U.S. Open at Riviera Country Club, a course dubbed "Hogan's Alley" because of his popularity there. His 8-under par record in 1948 tied for the first time in the United States Open Championships, beating only Jack Nicklaus in 1980, Hale Irwin in 1990, and Lee Janzen in 1993. It wasn't broken until Tiger Woods shot 12-under par in 2000 (Jim Furyk also shot 8-under par in 2003), Rory McIlroy set the new record of 16-under par (matching Brooks Koepka in 2017).
Hogan is the only celebrity to win at least ten PGA tour events in a year twice (13 in 1946 and 10 in 1948). Hogan has had the longest streaks of consecutive major attempts, winning both the top 5 (1940–1947) and the top ten (1948–1956). In as few as 11 attempts (1948–1953), he is the only player to win as many as 8 majors in as few as 11 attempts. With 16 (1940-1960), Hogan has the longest streak of consecutive U.S. Open finishes, finishing in the top ten with a record of 16 (1940-1960). The next longest streak in history is 7. Hogan is one of only two players to win three straight U.S. games. Willie Anderson is the other, who will attempt the open in three attempts. In 12 straight Open attempts (1941–1956), Hogan ranked in the top ten, the longest streak in Open history. He competed on 12 different courses and won five times.
Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, a modern PGA Tour tournament venue, is also known as "Hogan's Alley" and may have the right to claim the name as he has won its tour tournament five times. After his retirement, he was on his home course, and he was a lifelong member of Colonial as well as many years. During a golf tournament at Carnoustie in 2003, Hogan renamed Hogan's Alley, a par five on which Hogan took a notoriously difficult line off the tee during each of his rounds in the 1953 Open Championship.
Despite being one of the best golfers of his time, Hogan never really captured the hearts of his galleries prior to his 1949 debut. This could have been attributed to his ostensible, aloof on-course persona. But when Hogan shocked and stunned the golf world by returning to tournament golf just 11 months after his injury and finished second in the 1950 Los Angeles Open after a playoff loss to Sam Snead, the ecstatic fans roared on. "His legs were simply not strong enough to hold his heart any longer," Hogan's near-miss told. However, he did show his supporters (and himself) that he could still win by winning his second U.S. Open title by beating Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio in an 18-hole playoff at Merion near Philadelphia.
Hogan went on to win what may have been the best sporting achievement in history, limping to twelve more PGA Tour victories (including six majors) before retiring. In 1951, Hogan participated in just five tournaments, but he won three of them – the Masters, United States Open, and World Championship of Golf – and finished second and fourth in his other two debuts. He came in fourth on that season's money list, just $6,000 behind season's top money list leader Lloyd Mangrum, who appeared in more than 20 events. During the year, Follow the Sun: Glenn Ford's Hogan Story was released as a biopic. On his return from winning the British Open in 1953, he also attended a ticker-tape parade in New York City, the only time he participated in the sport. With that victory, Hogan became just the second player after Gene Sarazen to win all four of the modern major championships: the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the PGA Championship.
Hogan is the only person to win both the Masters, U.S. Open, and the British Open in the same calendar year (1953). His 14-under par at the 1953 Masters set a record that stood for more than a decade, but he remains one of just 12 players (Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods, David Duval, Charl Schwartzel, Martin Spieth, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler, and Patrick Reed) to have scored such low scores in the tournament. Hogan set a record of 30 on the back nine at the Masters in 1967, just shy of 1992.
In 1945, Hogan set a PGA Tour record for a 72-hole tournament at the Portland Open Invitational by shooting 27-under-par. The record stood unbeaten until 1998, when it was broken by John Huston (and now nine others have been surpassed by nine others, including Phil Mickelson's 28-under in the 2013 Waste Management Phoenix Open).
Hogan did not compete on the Senior PGA Tour because the circuit didn't exist when he was in his late sixties.
Hogan's tournament appearances may have earned him $91.8 million compared to his PGA Tour profile, although a 2021 report indicated that Hogan's tournament appearances could have earned him $91.8 million if he had competed in the modern era.