Monday

Notes
Thoughts on the best golfer ever. I don't know how to make the comparison. Have you ever seen the equipment that Bobby Jones used back in the 20's? How did he shoot those scores with that primitive stuff? Sumbitch shot 285 at St Andrews with those wooden handled crowbars and lug wrenches they used to use as clubs. Anyway, I don't know who the best is, but I can tell you who should be in the group, because each era had a dominant star.

In the 20's, Hagen and Sarazen had to defer to Jones, and they amassed their big professional win totals in a small Jonesless field. In that period there was no Masters, and Jones couldn't play in the PGA, but in the span from 1922 to 1930, he finished first or second in the US Open 8 times in nine years, including four wins and two playoff losses (each loss by only one stroke over 36 hole playoffs). He also won three British Opens in a five year span.

The 30's were a bad time for golf, which barely survived the great depression. The forties and early 50's had some greats, but again even Snead, with 81 tournament wins, and Nelson, with his famous streak, had to concede that Hogan was the man once he got rid of his hook. Hogan's career was capped by his 1953 comeback when he won three majors. Most people don't realize it, and the golf writers never seem to mention it, but Hogan actually won the virtual Grand Slam that year, because the PGA's dates conflicted with the British Open, and he could not enter both.

Palmer ruled golf in the span between Hogan and Nicklaus. Once Jack arrived, he was cock of the walk from 1964-1976, eventually racking up 20 majors (or 18 depending on your definition). Tom Watson took over until the early 80's in a career capped by five British Open titles. Tiger is the reigning king. The only really debatable period was the decade between Watson and Woods. In that period, Norman was probably the best, but not so convincingly that you couldn't argue for somebody else.

So there are your two threesomes: Watson, Palmer, Jones, Hogan, Woods, Nicklaus. What a dream it would be to bring them all back with their best skills intact and watch them battle it out with equal equipment on courses of equal length. And ya know what? I don't have any idea who would win. The question is not who has the best record. Based on the record, Nicklaus was not merely the Babe Ruth of golf, as Lawdog claimed, because even Ruth has Williams and Mays to challenge him. No, Nicklaus is the frigging Secretariat of Golf Records, lapping the field. But the question is who would win, and I don't know. I think Watson might be a bit out of his league in this group. He got zero votes in the poll, and is probably not as great a golfer as some guys off the list, but I'm not convinced on that point, and he was clearly the best for about a decade.

How'd ya like to watch Hogan and Woods play in a twosome one-on-one. Could Hogan's precision overcome Woods' driving and putting? I don't think Hogan could beat Woods on a very long course, because there are no par fives for Woods, but I have to tell some Hogan stories.


  • My favorite Hogan story. He successfully executed an impossible shot into Hogan's Alley twice in once day at Carnoustie, back in the days when they played 36 on the last day. The alley is a little area in the middle of nowhere that allows one to short-cut a 520 yard par 5. Nobody in his right mind would even try to hit the ball there in tournament play, because it is like hitting a drive and making it stop on a miniature golf green. You have to hit the ball into the Scottish winds directly through the OB left (and directly at the crowd, if you're in a tournament), and stop it in a little area between the OB and a fairway bunker. Hogan not only got there twice in one day with a driver, hitting a fade both times (which was not his natural shot), but the fans said his drive in the afternoon round was in his divot from the morning round, despite swirling winds! Oh, yeah, and he was 40 at the time. That was Hogan in his prime - completely identical shots, time after time.
  • My second favorite Hogan story is one I saw with my own eyes, in 1967, when he played in his last Masters. There was a little man who only came up to my chest and weighed all of 130 pounds, coming up on his 55th birthday but looking even older and dressed in the clothing of another era, and so badly hobbled by the pains in his legs that he couldn't even putt without agony. It was gut-wrenching to watch him try to find a pain-free putting stance on every putt. Anyway, he made the cut at Augusta and then shot 30 on the back nine of the third round. Let me tell you about that stretch. According to Dan Jenkins, the gallery just yawns when he sticks a seven iron six feet away on number 10, because Hogan always gets a seven iron within ten feet, but this time the putt falls. Then he sticks it a foot away on #11. On the treacherous #12, site of many a triple bogey, he lasers it within 12 feet and sinks it. And now everyone is aware that this little old ghost just went birdie-birdie-birdie on possibly the toughest three hole stretch of the greatest golf course on the planet. Even the frigging golf announcers stop talking about botany for a couple minutes, when they finally realize that Hogan is a bigger story than the magnolias. So with everybody watching him, the little old geezer comes to the par five 13th and he has no intention of playing for a fourth birdie. He's playing for eagle. He sticks his second shot 15 feet away, and the crowd goes nuts. Two holes later he again refuses to lay up on another par five, and this time gets it within 20 feet. He has to settle for mere birdies each time. When he calmly strokes in a 15 footer for birdie on 18, with all of mankind watching, there really aren't verbal cheers to speak of. Everybody simply stands and applauds long and hard, many with their hands wet from wiping away the mysterious moisture near their eyes. After three rounds, he's tied with the eventual winner at three under.

    Mr Nicklaus, in the prime of his life, missed the cut, and complained about the unfair playing conditions! I wish I could tell you Hogan won or something, but his legs and his putting failed him, and he finished tenth.


  • They say this one is also true. Hogan's playing at Augusta with his friend Claude Harmon, and they come to the 12th hole, the little killer par three. Harmon aces the hole, gallery goes nuts. Hogan says nothing, is locked inside himself, goes up, sinks his putt, vintage Hogan. On the way to the 13th hole, Hogan says to Harmon "I don't think I ever birdied that hole before". Concentration. He was once asked to critique Snead's swing and he told reporters that he had never seen it. What? Hogan explained that the first time he saw Snead on the range, he realized after one swing that Snead played with a fast tempo which could screw up Hogan if he started to fall into Snead's rhythm. So that one swing, remembered only for its fast pace, was the only time Hogan ever turned his gaze toward a swinging Snead in the zillion years they knew each other.
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    Marie Gillain in Cafe magazine, may 2000 (Lundberg)
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