by Jeff Skinner
The accolades for Ken Venturi keep on coming and Michael Breed did a nice job acknowledging Venturi on last night’s Golf Fix.
Listen to Venturi talk about “The Match” when he and fellow amateur Harvie Ward took on the great Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson. And if you haven’t read Mark Frost’s book detailing this amazing day in golf go out and get it. It’s one of the most incredible stories in golf.
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Totally agree. It was by dumb luck that I happened to see this book in a used book store (possibly Goodwill) — never heard of it before. I was blown away by the story. Inspired me to read books by Nelson and Hogan (other authors) afterwards. Love that time period when golf was pure. Much less interesting sport today.
FYI, here is a talk (at Google in 2008) by Mark Frost which I recently watched and enjoyed that you may too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5f_YDQsJG0 (assuming you even see this comment, it’s 2020! 7 yrs after this post)