Fried Egg Stories: Ben Hogan vs. the Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 2)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this second installment of our documentary series “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” we focus on the 1951 U.S. Open, in which Ben Hogan did battle with Robert Trent Jones’s modern architecture at Oakland Hills Country Club. Our guests in this episode are Ed Gruver (@EdGruver), Richard Howting, James Hansen, Robert Trent Jones Jr., and Bradley Klein (@BradleySKlein). Further reading: Ed Gruver, Bringing the Monster to Its Knees: Ben Hogan, Oakland Hills, and the 1951 U.S. Open Richard Howting, “Defining Moment: The 1951 U.S. Open” Bradley Klein, “Forever in Tweed, Amen: Herbert Warren Wind’s contributions to golf know no word count” in The Golfer’s Journal No. 13

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, just a note that this is part two of a three-part documentary series.
0:05.6	You can definitely listen to this episode on its own, but you'll get a bit more out of
0:09.8	it if you start with part one.
0:13.2	This episode of Friday Stories is brought to you by Precision Pro Golf Range Finders.
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0:34.2	Swing with confidence, hit more greens with Precision Pro Golf.
0:57.7	You need to be aggressive on any shot, whether it's sitting cleanly or it's a Friday egg.
1:05.7	Well, we've all faced it, the dreaded Friday egg.
1:08.7	It's not to be feared though, it's actually a pretty easy shot to hit.
1:22.7	You like it?
1:23.7	Very nice.
1:25.7	And I'm better than our first car.
1:27.7	The movie stars Anne Baxter and Glen Ford are on a sound stage in Hollywood, pretending
1:33.3	to drive a Cadillac.
1:35.2	Through the windows, a simulation of fog is visible.
1:38.8	But just in case you didn't notice it, the dialogue refers to it repeatedly.
1:43.7	You got a peg after driving in soup like this.
1:46.7	And there's a road.
1:47.7	In a bit of foreshadowing, there's a cut to a semi-truck being closely followed by a bus.
1:52.7	I was a bog.
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