Ben Hogan

Ben Hogan's Peak: 1953 form rates 95 overall among the all-time greats, a Complete Player profile built around accuracy graded S+, which tops every other attribute on the card.

• Power A- — a touch below tour-average in the legends pool; 18 of the other 25 players in the pool rate higher. How far the ball goes off the tee — long hitters shorten every hole.
• Accuracy S+ — elite in the legends pool; no one else in the pool rates higher. How often the ball finds the fairway and stays out of trouble.
• Iron Play sits at S+ for Hogan, elite across the legends pool: no one else in the pool rates higher. Precision from the fairway into the green — the single biggest driver of low scores.
• At B+, Hogan's short game rating is well below the pool average (8th percentile of the legends pool) — nearly the whole pool rates higher. Scrambling around the green — chips, pitches, and bunker shots that save par.
• At B+, Hogan's putting rating is well below the pool average (8th percentile of the legends pool) — nearly the whole pool rates higher. Holing putts, especially the ones inside ten feet that turn pars into birdies.
• At S, Hogan's course iq rating is among the very best in the pool (96th percentile of the legends pool) — only one other player in the pool rates higher. Course management and shot selection — playing the smart shot, not just the bold one.
• At A+, Hogan's nerve rating is modestly above average (56th percentile of the legends pool) — 11 of the other 25 players in the pool rate higher. Composure in contention — how a golfer performs with the tournament on the line.
• At S, Hogan's consistency rating is top-tier (92nd percentile of the legends pool) — only 2 players in the pool rate higher. How tightly a golfer's scores cluster around their average, round after round.
• Engine sits at B+ for Hogan, the clearest weak point in the profile across the legends pool: nearly the whole pool rates higher. Stamina and durability across a long season — fewer withdrawals, less late-year fade.

Complete Player. A complete player — every one of the nine zones rates highly with barely a gap between the best and the weakest. There is no soft spot to target; the season plan is simply to let the whole game show up every week.

On raw attribute shape, nobody in the legends pool matches this card more closely than Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo and Byron Nelson, in that order of similarity.

• Lee Trevino,
• Nick Faldo,
• Byron Nelson

This profile's course fit lines up best with U.S. Open (Major), THE PLAYERS Championship (Flagship) and The Open Championship (Major) — the three events on the schedule that reward this exact mix of attributes the most.

• U.S. Open — Major
• THE PLAYERS Championship — Flagship
• The Open Championship — Major

Legends aren't priced for Salary Cap — Ben Hogan unlocks wholesale, gold-accented, alongside the rest of the Peak: 1953 pool inside Legends mode, where every build gets the same nine zones and no budget to manage.

1953: won 3 majors in 3 starts (Masters, U.S. Open, Open) — the Triple Crown. Purest ball-striker ever; putting and short game merely good; legs 6 after the 1949 crash (never played a full schedule again). Ratings on this card are editorial judgment, not official statistics — see the methodology page for how they are derived.

Every rating on this page is a 1–11 editorial judgment, not a live statistic — see how ratings and the season simulation work.