I read one story where people had been telling Hogan on the range how long this Palmer kid hit the ball and Hogan was unimpressed. Part of it was probably because of his personality vs Palmer's he was just much more approachable than Hogan for journalists and fans alike. Hogan was one of the greatest golfers of that era and was completely passed over as soon as Palmer hit the scene. He could have had some extra venom towards Arnold Palmer and I can understand why. He was just generally unapproachable and he was known to have played entire rounds and not spoken a single word to his playing partners. Older fans side with the player of their time.įrom the stories I've read of Hogan, this was just how he was. We see this a lot in sport with the new phenom replacing to older one. I guess Hogan had either axe to grind or just was jealous of the newcomer. I had more conversation with Valerie, his wife, a wonderful lady who's gone now. I talked to Nelson, I talked to Snead, but the conversation with Hogan was zero. I was low man that day, and I got the feeling that upset him. But we never really had a conversation.Īnother time, I played in an exhibition at Preston Trail. I was on his team when he was captain of the Ryder Cup in 1967. That I was never an entity as far as he was concerned. "I suppose that's the thing that bothered me some. , Palmer said he resented how Hogan barely acknowledged him. In an interview with Golf Digest's Bob Verdi in 1999 Hogan's frosty attitude toward Palmer has been chronicled before. And I objected to it but there was nothing I could do about it.” A lot of it was ‘Hey you’ or something like that all the time. But ‘til the day he passed, I never remember him calling my name out and pronouncing my name Arnold or Palmer… and I played on his Ryder Cup team in Houston and even then he never called me by Arnie or Arnold. "And I wasn’t ever quite sure why he didn’t. "It did bother me," Palmer, 86, told Bensinger in an interview that will run this weekend. , Palmer reiterated that it still rattles him that Hogan never called him by his name. In an interview with Graham Bensinger on Yahoo! Sports When Hogan was captain of the American Ryder Cup team in 1967, he was said to be annoyed that Palmer flew over the tournament site in his jet.Īnd no matter how far Palmer got in golf - winning seven majors, not to mention countless new fans - Hogan still viewed him as a bit of an interloper. Hogan was all business, Palmer admired as much for his dynamic personality as his game. Here's another example of where the late Ben Hogan was in a class of his own.Īs the story goes, Hogan and Palmer never quite meshed in their time overlapping at the height of golf.
Arnold Palmer is so beloved by so many, it's hard to imagine him having much of an axe grind with anyone.
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