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Show Ben Hogan i 'Admits' To Puttin 'Edge NEW YORK (AP) Ben Hogan, Ho-gan, once the most feared man in golf, says he's ashamed to get out on a course now because of a bad case of putting jitters. "THATS all it is the jerks, nerves. I can't bring the club back any more," the four-time National Open champion said as he discussed his putting problems prob-lems with amazing frankness. "I absolutely freeze over the ball. I have no conception where it's going. I'm embarrassed a-bout a-bout getting out there in front of a lot of people. I might hit one of them. "That' why I have no tournament tourn-ament plans at the moment. The Open? Definitely, I wont play In the Open." Hogan now is 51, but he is is lean and hard at 171 pounds is at the height of his remarkable remark-able career. Those cold gray eyes can still cut into you like a flashing saber. And he refuses to flinch from cold facts. "I DONT intend to play any more tournament golf until I can get some semblance of putting putt-ing stroke back," the man they once called the Texas Hawk said. ''I don't know when that will be, if ever. "I. can still play the game reasonably well from tee to green. I may have lost a little distance and some accuracy, but I would be willing to play In any tournament if I could only putt." |