Fuzzy Zoeller - "Recalling Mr. Hogan" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle It went straight down the middle Then it started to Buzzy what's your recollection of of Ben Hogan from then and and even prior?

Mike Gonzalez 0:21

Well you know uh Mr.

Fuzzy Zoeller 0:22

Hogan I got to see him every year at the champions dinner at Colonial And uh the story I always tell is that from the Augusta dinner with Herman Kaiser, Hermie'd always walk up to me and say you tell Mr. Hogan, he'd always call him Mr. Hogan, tell Mr. Hogan thank you from Hermie. So every year after 81 um I always walked up to Mr. Hogan and I said uh Herman Kaiser says thank you. And he'd look up and those little crooky old fingers is go, he's never forgotten. And what it is and what it was, it was a story from 1938. Of course that was before my time. Um Herman Kaiser was broke, didn't have any money to make it to the next tournament. Mr. Hogan loaned him fifteen hundred dollars to get to the next week. And then Herman won and paid him back uh all in a week's time, paid him back the fifteen hundred. And they have never forgotten that story. So that's what the story was, and every year I went uh to the colonial dinner and saw Mr. and Mrs. Hogan before dinner, I'd always walk up and say, Hermie says thank you.

Mike Gonzalez 1:37

That's kind of neat, yeah. We hope you've enjoyed this short track of For the Good of the Game. And please, wherever you listen to your podcast on Apple and Spotify, if you like what you hear, please subscribe, spread the word, and tell your friends until we tee it up again for the good of the game. So long, everybody.

Intro Music 2:01

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay. Yes, it went straight down the middle, quite away.