#Ben hogan apex specs 1999 driver#

It is played widely in the professional ranks and gains immediate acceptance on the PGA Tour.ДЎ980 Ben Hogan golf balls are #1 on the PGA Tour, earning more money and winning more money than any other ball.ДЎ984 Minnesota investor Irwin Jacobs buys AMF and sells the rest of its assets, but keeps control of the Ben Hogan Company.ДЎ989 The most successful iron in Ben Hogan history, the Edge, is introduced. Softer in the long irons, firmer in the short irons, it is believed to be the most consistent shaft in golf.ДЎ972 The Ben Hogan Company introduces the first Apex iron. Hogan and veteran club designer Gene Sheely team up to build the first constant weight taper-tip steel shaft, the ApexTM.

#Ben hogan apex specs 1999 driver#

Hogan remains Chairman.ДЎ964 Ben Hogan brings a new concept to driver design with the introduction of the more aerodynamically efficient 'Speed Slot'.ДЎ968 Mr. Hogan's company releases its first club, the 'Precision', after withholding initial sets for quality reasons.ДЎ960 Ben Hogan sells his company to American Machine and Foundry (AMF).Mr. Fortunately, in what he decided would be his make-or-break tournament, the 1937 Oakland Open, during which thieves had stolen the wheels from his car, he shot a final-round 69 to clinch second place, and one of the greatest careers in the game was launched.ДЎ953 Ben Hogan wins three of the four modern majors in one year.Ben Hogan forms the Ben Hogan Company with funding from Marvin Leonard and Pollard Simon.ДЎ954 Mr. For several seasons, he struggled both financially and on the golf course, and in fact, at one stage he contemplated giving up the game altogether.

The early part of his career displayed several indications of the dominance he would later show over the golfing world. Also included in his list of achievements is the award for the Professional Male Athlete of the Year, which he won in 1953, four years after his near-fatal car accident.

Ben Hogan's tournament-winning career stretched 21 years from 1938 to 1959, when at age of 47, he won the Colonial Invitational.