Word: hogans
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...instance, is one of those souls who commune with Thoroughbreds somewhere beyond speech. O'Brien's canny ways brought the team its first big season in 1977: the $200,000 stallion The Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt of the peat" conformation expert, which means he specializes in assessing the look of a horse. The instinctual Hogan once told Sangster to spend $200,000 on an undistinguished-seeming foal he had spotted in a field. Sangster did, and the filly won three of her first...
Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Samuel Jackson Snead all will hit 70 this year, a pretty good score when you consider the course. Almost 40 years since he was able to win eleven golf tournaments in a row, Nelson is in Texas being venerable and staying available to Tom Watson whenever the kid needs a lesson. Hogan is in Texas being difficult and hanging up on Gary Player when the South African calls for advice. ("Mr. Player, are you affiliated with a club manufacturer?" "Dunlop." "Call Dunlop." Click.) Snead last week was in Ohio being Snead and so was playing...
...said, including a record 84 on the American tour. Starting in 1936, he has been winning for "six decades or so." How in Sam Hill has he done it? "What the heck, never having golf lessons helped some." As Nelson says with envy but without resentment, "Hogan and I worked hard to perfect our swings. Sam was born with his." Even the best golfers' swipes show the strain of their various checkpoints, but Snead still makes his velvet swing seem the most natural thing for a man to do. Over the decades, only Sam has noticed much change. "Some...
...Golfers all lose their game, and usually their dignity, on the green. Nicklaus, who is in the throes of it at 42, won for the first time in two years last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years...
Snead may not be as free with lessons as Nelson, but he is not as tight with advice as Hogan. "Everyone should try keeping his hand in, whatever he does," he said. "If I stopped golfing for a month, I probably couldn't break...