[June 16, 2022]–On the Wednesday practice day at Brookline’s The Country Club I easily surpassed walking the 7,254-yard setup for… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Ben Hogan
Heed Your Elders, You Whippersnappers!
As Phil Mickelson remarkably demonstrated at this year’s PGA Championship, age and experience make a potent combination. Dottie Pepper confirms… Read more »
On Finding a New Putter
I was halfway through the golf season this year before I buckled down to finding a new putter. I’d been… Read more »
Wodehouse on Golf and Other Tales
It may be a function of growing older, or simply wading into the wrong streams of literature, that I find… Read more »
History Lessons, and Lessons
Maybe the hour has arrived to call a timeout on golf books that put a particular tournament under the microscope…. Read more »
The Compelling Drama of Golf
Greg Norman didn’t play in the U.S. Senior Open at Oak Tree National this year. But he’ll certainly be present… Read more »
Grappling With Golf
The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club in Illinois begin the evening of September 27…. Read more »
Glory Days
Yes, Virginia, there was golf before Tiger Woods, even before Arnold Palmer. And in both Jim Dodson’s American Triumvirate (Knopf,… Read more »
Rocking in the Dirt With Hogan
Thanks to Steve Eubanks for unearthing this one. Steve assisted Kris Tschetter with her book, Mr. Hogan, The Man I… Read more »
Hogan Lives!
No extended piece about Ben Hogan can go on for long without mentioning the car wreck in February of 1949… Read more »