Tuesday 31 March 2015 11:52, UK
With 10 days to go until the Masters, we focus on the top 10 Masters legends of all time. Today, it's two-time champion Ben Hogan.
Textbooks on the perfect golf swing were ripped up and rewritten when Ben Hogan burst onto the scene just prior to the Second World War.
The Texan won three major championships between 1946 and 1948 and gained worldwide recognition for his pure ball-striking and an intense will to win as he duelled with the likes of Sam Snead and Byron Nelson.
His career, already interrupted by the war years, looked to have been terminated by a near-fatal car crash in 1949 which caused injuries of such severity that doctors told him he would never walk again.
But he defied medical opinion to win his second US Open just over a year later, and he earned an overdue Masters title in 1951 as a sublime closing 68 gave him a two-shot win over Skee Riegel.
Hogan then broke the Masters scoring record in a dominant five-shot triumph in 1953 before handing the title back to Snead after a play-off the following year.
He went on to record five more top-10 finishes at Augusta, including a tie for 10th in his final Masters appearance in 1967 before retiring to concentrate on his golf equipment business.
