hogan, ben

The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match. Lowery challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them.

Jack Handley returns to the exclusive Midwest course where he caddied as a young boy, where he shares his recollections about the historic summer of 1946, when he caddied for Ben Hogan during the PGA golf tournament.

Uses newly rediscovered photographs from Ben Hogan's "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf" as the basis for a series of lessons on swing concepts.