Whatever happened to Hogan's notes?
- Thread starter Matt 4-L
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Wasnt the little red handbook written by hogan?
I think that was Harvey Penick.
Matt 4-L
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if Hogan kept a journal of what he was working on as he said he did, he was the type of personality that was well organized and obsessive. It makes you wonder if there is/was a notebook in his estate stuff. I assume whoever got control of his estate after Valerie died would have gone through everything.
Hogan reportedly was also very secretive and a bit paranoid when it came to people watching him practice, especially when he was still active on the Tour. It is said that he would often seek out a quiet area that was out of the way and it would be just he and a ball boy. If that is all true, then he may have very well have a notebook or two hidden away somewhere. But one would think that they would have come to light in the past 50+ years though. It would be a good question to put to someone like Jackie Burke who was a close friend of Hogan's. Hell, he might even have the notebook/s himself. Who knows? But, I agree that it would be one hell of a discovery.
I think that you are correct. Even so, it would give an insight into how he went about the process and his thoughts on the golf swing.Unfortunately I think you'll find that the notebook would be full of things that DIDN'T work.....I've got one...
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jeffy
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I have done a little detective work and can't find any evidence that such notebooks exist, or ever existed. I did a general Google search as well as a search of Google Books and all that I found was the original reference to keeping notes contained in Five Lessons and a handful of references by others to that source. No mention of actual notebooks was found anywhere, nor was there any other instance where Hogan or those close to him talked about him keeping notes.
The closest thing I could find was from James Dodson's Ben Hogan An American Life. Dodson wrote his Hogan biography with what was represented to him as full access to Hogan's personal correspondence and other items, but found that "only some of [this material] turned out to be helpful; Hogan, for example, kept minutely detailed expense and travel diaries and derived great pleasure from dispatching formal letters and puckish notes to his friends but rarely if ever committed his deeper feelings to paper".
The closest thing I could find was from James Dodson's Ben Hogan An American Life. Dodson wrote his Hogan biography with what was represented to him as full access to Hogan's personal correspondence and other items, but found that "only some of [this material] turned out to be helpful; Hogan, for example, kept minutely detailed expense and travel diaries and derived great pleasure from dispatching formal letters and puckish notes to his friends but rarely if ever committed his deeper feelings to paper".
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