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Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. This column came to life with one singular goal in mind: helping our readers become ...

Ben Hogan may have the most famous golf swing in the world. His long, flowing motion was a sensation in its time, and remains a sensation to this day. Most golfers have seen Hogan's golf swing ...

A common misconception among people who know very little about golf is that golfers are, by and large, kind of soft. They don’t run around at high speeds, they don’t tackle one another, they don’t ...

In this brief handbook, Andrisani (The Nicklaus Way) draws lessons from Ben Hogan's pure swing, unparalleled concentration, dedication to practice and unique approach to golf--and demonstrates how ...

Ben Hogan's imprints remain all over the golf world—especially the world of golf swings. Except over the years, one of Ben Hogan's tips has been thoroughly cast by the wayside, which is interesting ...

Ben Hogan won nine major championships in less than 10 years On this day in 1997, one of the game’s all-time greats, Ben Hogan, died at the age of 84. Ben Hogan won 9 major championships in less than ...

Seventy-five years ago, amateur golfers would have wished for a chance to play golf with Ben Hogan. That doesn’t mean in 1952 they couldn’t beat him. Hogan, one of the best players in history, helped ...

Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were both in their early 50s when they faced off in May 1964 at Houston Country Club in an edition of Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf. This was hardly a match between two aging ...

Ben Hogan won five times at Colonial Country Club throughout his professional career, and as a reminder of his success at the Fort Worth golf club, there’s a 7-foot statue of Hogan swinging a driver ...