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B en Hogan didnt stand a chance for a successful life as a kid from the plateau lands of central Texas. He was born on August 13, 1912, in Stephenville Hospital across the Brazos River from Fort Worth, just ten miles north from his familys simple cottage in a cattle town named Dublin. His mother, Clara, married a blacksmith named Chester who had health problems on top of the bad luck to be caught in the middle of a horse-dominated economy changing inexorably into an automobile economy. Depressed and impoverished, Chester could not cope with all the changes which were beyond his control, and so chose a cold and brittle St. Valentines Day to shoot himself in front of his quiet and polite nine-year-old son Bennie. The noise of the thirty-eight caliber pistol aimed awkwardly at the heart in the confines of a tiny cottage blew away for young Ben any hope of a life which could be supported by normal amounts of trust and confidence.

It should be noted that, in contrast, Tiger Woodss father, Earl Woods, was a decorated Green Beret with two tours in Vietnam. So, as a lieutenant colonel, he knew the value of discipline and commitment. His goal was to transfer to his son the essential characteristics of a good person as well as those of a champion by self-examination and discovery of ones talent, and the unwavering determination to polish it. Tigers daily routine began with making his bed every morning then finishing his homework before any golf could be contemplated.