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Five Lessons The Modern FundaInentals of Golf

Dmwings by Anthony Ravielli

A FIRESIDE BOOK Published iTy Simon & Schuster

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Copyright c 1957 by Ben Hogan All rights reserved including the right of reproduction· in whole or in part in any form First Fireside Edition, 1985 Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 Published by arrangement with A. S. Barnes and Company FIRESIDE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hogan, Ben, date. Five lessons: the modern fundamentals of golf. Previously published in 1957. UA Fireside book." 1. Golf. I. Wind, Herbert Warren, 1918II. Title. III. Title: Modern fundamentals of golf. GV965.H59 1985 796.352 85-14558 ISBN 0-671-61297-2

Foreword

The yearning to play a better game of golf is a n\ltional mania in America. No man who golfs is so stubborn, so conceited, so arrogant or so accomplished that he is not constantly striving to improve his score. He may not admit this to others. He may pretend that mediocrity is enougJi for him. ("I shoot in the 90s and I have a lotoffun. That's good enough for me.") This man is telling a white lie and he knows it. He wants _ desperately to break 90 and when he does, he will want just as desperately to break 80. Let him shoot in the high 70s and he will have but one dream: par or better. Only a few days ago I played a round with a famous pro, an especially serene companion and one of the enduring masters of golf. He was on that day trying out a new set of woods for the...