Golf Motion Academy

In this article Ben takes literary license and took a quote from Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and The Carpenter” in the book “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” and equated it to playing golf after the long layoff during the winter months. He provided tips on what is most important when starting up again.

From early in 1947 to late 1949 Ben Hogan wrote a series of short articles (numbering more than 300) about interesting anecdotes and relationships he developed in the world of golf and tips for golfers of all skill levels. Tom Shehan, a journalist who made his career by covering horseracing for several publications was the ghostwriter of these articles and others, including Ben Hogan’s Power Golf and works by Byron Nelson and Sam Snead. McNaught Syndicate distributed the articles to newspapers. This article was published in April 1949. 123rd in a series.

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