Ben Hogan's Five Lessons - (Hardcover)

About the Book

Over the past sixty-five years, millions of golfers have studied Ben Hogan's Five Lessons, making it the bestselling golf book of all time. Now, Hogan's masterpiece has received the definitive edition it deserves.

Book Synopsis

With a new introduction by Lee Trevino, this is the first definitive edition of the timeless golf classic that has sold over a million copies--now with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia, hand-selected from the Hogan estate archive, as well as nearly 100 pages of new writings that expand on Hogan's unbelievable life story and extraordinary career.

Over the past sixty-five years, millions of golfers have studied Ben Hogan's Five Lessons, making it the bestselling golf book of all time. Now, Hogan's masterpiece has received the definitive edition it deserves.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport, Hogan is especially known for his mastery of the golf swing. At the start of his career, he played with a hook that threatened to ruin his game, until he dedicated himself to correcting it--and in doing so, he gained a rare and hard-fought understanding of the fundamentals. Curious fans itched for clues about his legendary technique, dubbed "the secret," that allowed him to persevere and even return to the height of his powers after a car crash that shattered his body and almost took his life in 1949. His terse answer, "I dug it out of the dirt"--the dirt of the driving range--fueled the Hogan mystique. He went on to become one of only five players to win all four professional championships, claiming nine major championships in total.

In 1957, Hogan partnered with Herbert Warren Wind, "the dean of American golf writers" (The New York Times), and illustrator Anthony Ravielli to capture his expertise from the peak of his career in a series of lessons. Hogan believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break eighty. In each chapter, a different tested fundamental is explained and demonstrated with clear illustrations, as though Hogan were giving you a personal lesson with the same skill and precision that made him a legend.

Now expanded with a new introduction by Lee Trevino, essays about Hogan and the book's legacy, unpublished photos of the publicity-shy Hogan, and more, this definitive edition offers greater context and fresh insight into an icon of the game.

Review Quotes

"Hogan's instruction has never gone out of date and this book is worth the price of admission just for Trevino's personal foreword that reveals some little-known details of Trevino's childhood, Marine tour of duty, his relationship with Hogan and how this instruction book he found by accident changed his life." --Gary Van Sickle, The First Call

"If the Rules of Golf are this sport's Ten Commandments, then this book is the closest thing it has to a bible. . . . Five Lessons' staying power is fueled by its ingredients. You had the best ball-striker of his generation combined with the best wordsmith of his. . . . Simon & Schuster published a 40th anniversary edition of the book, leaving the original text untouched but teeing it up with a new foreword from Lee Trevino and adding 97 new pages of 'History, Context, Legacy' . . . For Trevino, Hogan was both inspiration and imagination. And isn't that how golf feels to all of us?" --Sean Zak, GOLF magazine

"A new, expanded edition of Hogan's perennial bestseller, Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf, connects his genius for the game with his personal story. Accompanying Hogan's original instructional material, written with Herbert Warren Wind and first published in 1957, is an insightful collection of essays." --John Paul Newport, The Wall Street Journal

"Sixty-five years later, Ben Hogan's Five Lessons still stands out among golf publishing works." --Sports Illustrated

"The instructions in Hogan's book of five lessons are direct and endlessly helpful." --Golf.com