1953 - Ben Hogan Battles the British and His Own Body

Ben Hogan, handicapped from a near fatal auto accident in 1949, competed in his only British Open in 1953

INTRODUCTION From The Sports Time Traveler™

Ben Hogan, the greatest golfer of his time, and some say the greatest ever, was at his height in the summer of 1953, despite the fact that he was 40 years old and playing an extremely limited schedule of only about a half dozen tournaments a year.

Hogan struggled to walk a golf course due to his near fatal aut…