American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf

American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of GolfIn this celebration of three legendary champions on the centennial of their births in 1912, one of the most accomplished and successful writers about the game explains the circumstances that made each of them so singularly brilliant and how they, in turn, saved not only the professional tour but modern golf itself, thus making possible the subsequent popularity of players from Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods. During the Depressionafter the exploits of

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and from the late thirties into the fifties these three men were so thoroughly dominant—each setting a host of records—that they transformed both how the game was played and how society regarded it

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But he was not recklessly fast and was always in control of speed and quickness

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