Stockert said if the online auction had continued, he would not have won. Although some estimated the clubs might bring $50,000, Stockert said he paid “substantially less” than that. Stockert did not want to reveal how much he paid for the seven clubs - irons 3 through 9. “I just thought it would be awesome to have a piece of golf history like this in Aberdeen.” “Ben Hogan was one of the greatest players in the history of the game,” said Stockert, an avid golfer who has a passion for golf history. That got the bug going in me,” Stockert said. “Dean told me about the auction, and I started to follow it. Zahn is the PGA head professional at Moccasin Creek in Aberdeen, where Stockert is a member of the board of directors. Stockert said he didn’t set out to buy Hogan’s irons, but his friend Zahn put him on the hunt. I think that the golfers here appreciate the history of the game, and the Hogan mystique, and will take good care of such a precision piece of history. “These are the tools used by the greatest ball striker that ever played, in his greatest season some would say the best season ever. Hogan ever thought his clubs would end up in Aberdeen, South Dakota,” Dean Zahn, of Moccasin Creek Country Club, said in an email. Hogan couldn’t play in the fourth major as the PGA Tournament and British Open dates overlapped in 1953. Jeff Stockert, of Aberdeen, bought World Golf Hall of Fame Ben Hogan’s set of MacGregor irons from his magical 1953 season when Hogan won all five pro events that he entered, including three of the four major tournaments: the Masters, U.S. A piece of pro golf’s Holy Grail has landed in Aberdeen.
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