Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberto de Vicenzo is a handsome, 28-year-old Argentine with the shoulders of a fullback, the rhythmic golf swing of a Ben Hogan, and a powerful urge to hit the big money of the U.S. golf circuit. Last year, after whipping the best of the competition at home, he packed his bags, set out for Britain, where he was runner-up to Bobby Locke in the British Open, went on to win the open championships of Belgium, Holland and France. Last week, in his third crack at the U.S. circuit, Golfer de Vicenzo gave 15 other top pros...
...Hogan got $4,000 in prize money for winning the National Open last year...
When a cheering crowd finally let him leave the green after 30 minutes, Chapman explained how he had finally broken his jinx: "I owe it all to Ben Hogan. He taught me to shift my right hand and cured me of hooking my irons. I changed my grip just before I came over here." Added beaming Dick Chapman: "I've been waiting a long time to say this is the happiest day of my life...
Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Guests: Ben Hogan, Bob Crosby...
Though the real Hogan comeback is made to order for drama, the picture must work overtime to warm up the famed Hogan reserve. It does so partly by accenting the devoted loyalty of the golfer and his wife, partly in the casting of likable Actor Ford, who, with Hogan's coaching, also gives a good imitation of the master's golfing technique. But Follow the Sun humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist...