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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons book. This book is a collection of five articles Hogan wrote on the "modern fundamentals" of golf for Sports Illustrated in the Fifties

Ben Hogan's Five Lessons book. This book is a collection of five articles Hogan wrote on the "modern fundamentals" of golf for Sports Illustrated in the Fifties. In a way, you're glad he wrote it down, because you'd hate him to be a personal teacher. He comes across as not only a purist, but an absolute obsessive over the game.

Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf. By Ben Hogan with Herbert Warren Wind. Drawings by Anthony Ravielli. First published by . Barnes and Company in 1957. Current publisher: Touchstone (September 20, 1985). Pages: 128. Formats: Paperback, Kindle, Hardcover (used). Five Lessons is Ben Hogan’s gift to golfers of all skill levels. Hogan wants golfers to master the modern fundamentals so they can improve their golf swings, shoot better scores and increase their enjoyment of this maddening game. As Hogan says in Five Lessons, The greatest.

Ben Hogan's premise in this 1957 classic is driven home in bold letters: "THE AVERAGE GOLFER IS ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF BUILDING A REPEATING SWING AND BREAKING 8. Religions are founded on less, and Hogan's detailed analyses and illustrated demonstrations of grip. Religions are founded on less, and Hogan's detailed analyses and illustrated demonstrations of grip, stance, posture, and the two basic components of the swing make up a sacred book. Though its very simplicity seems dated, this is the tome of technique that should serve as the foundation of every golf library.

Below are the articles from the series

First published in March 1957, Ben Hogan’s Modern Fundamentals of Golf ran as a series in Sports Illustrated. He wrote it with longtime SI golf writerHerbert Warren Wind. At the time, the magazine described it this way: The greatest golfer of our time has distilled all of his knowledge, his experience aid his perceptions into five extraordinary lessons which he believes will enable the average golfer to shoot in the 70s. Beginning with this issue and continuing for the next four, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is privileged to present the fruits of Hogan’s wisdom

A timeless classic with nearly one million copies in print, Ben Hogan?s Five Lessons outlines the building blocks of winning golf from one of the all-time masters of the sport?fully illustrated with drawings and diagrams to improve your game instantly

A timeless classic with nearly one million copies in print, Ben Hogan?s Five Lessons outlines the building blocks of winning golf from one of the all-time masters of the sport?fully illustrated with drawings and diagrams to improve your game instantly. Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport, believed that any golfer with average coordination. can learn to break eighty?if one applies oneself patiently and intelligently. With the techniques revealed in this classic book, you can learn how to make your game work from tee to green, step-by-step and stroke by stroke

02 of 08. Best Improvement: Golf is Not a Game of Perfect. Golf is Not a Game of Perfect can help you improve your golf game, but not by teaching you the best way to swing a club. This golf Hall of Famer also wrote advice and lessons that golfers today can still use. His lessons aren’t just about how to play on the course, but how to conduct yourself and maintain quality relationships with others. Continue to 5 of 8 below.

Ben Hogan discovered golf as a fifteen-year-old caddie Hogan's book is a short, but comprehensive analysis of the golf swing.

Ben Hogan discovered golf as a fifteen-year-old caddie. He turned pro at seventeen, joined the tour full-time as a nineteen-year-old in 1931, and has won nine pro majors. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he is one of only four golfers to win all four professional majors. Hogan's book is a short, but comprehensive analysis of the golf swing. His stated purpose of giving the average weekend golfer the tools to develop a repeatable golf swing has, in my opinion, been met. The fundamentals he espouses are few, and simple enough to implement without causing one to overthink.