Ben Hogan Pitch Shot

[cmoney1988]

wow the RPM on that ball must be ridiculous

[emncaity]

...said Cherry Hills, 1960...

(the shot that lost him the U.S. Open when he was 48, and gave a huge early boost to Palmer's rising legend....)

[jpsartrean]

@emncaity Don't forget that Jack was right there in '60 too...

Saw an interview on youtube somewhere of Hogan talking about the Cherry Hills shot - claimed it still "ripped his guts out" even 20-30 years later...

R.I.P. Mr. Hogan

[emncaity]

@jpsartrean

Like Jack has always said, right up to the present day, if that fat kid from Ohio had known anything about winning that the later Nicklaus knew, he probably would've won the tournament.

[emncaity]

@emncaity

And yeah, I'll bet that did rip Hogan's guts out. People who were there said it looked impossible to get the ball to stop, much less spin back into the water; the whole point of putting the flag there was to make people have to putt back toward the hole after inevitably hitting it past. Figures that Hogan would be the guy to do the impossible thing.