{"product_id":"books-afternoons-with-mr-hogan-by-jody-vasquez","title":"Afternoons with Mr. Hogan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBen Hogan's former ball shagger recounts firsthand stories of the golf legend-andreveals, for the first time, Hogan's Swing Secret, a source of mystery to golfers for more than fifty years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eBen Hogan's pro golf record is legendary. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he celebrated sixty-three tournament wins and became known as a man of few words and fewer close friends. Most of what we know about Hogan has been based on myth and speculation. Until now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s, though Hogan's competitive career was over, he kept the practice habits that made him famous and remade modern competitive golf. He hired seventeen-year-old Jody Vasquez to help. Each day, after driving to a remote part of the course at Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan would spend hours hitting balls and Vasquez would retrieve them. There, and over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Hogan taught Jody the mechanics of his famous swing and shared his thoughts on playing, practicing, and course management-unknowingly revealing much about his character, values, and beliefs, and the events that shaped them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfternoons with Mr. Hogan\u003c\/i\u003e, Jody Vasquez shares dozens of stories about Hogan, from the way he practiced, selected his clubs, and interacted with other star players to his little-known humor and generosity. Combining the gentle insight of Tom Kite's \u003ci\u003eA Fairway to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (which recalls Kite's golf education under Harvey Penick) with the sage perspective of Penick's own \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Vasquez's tribute is funny, poignant, and full of advice for golfers of all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505186693393,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781592401130.jpg?v=1778092320","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-afternoons-with-mr-hogan-by-jody-vasquez","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}