TIL after professional golfer Ben Hogan threw himself across his car to cover his wife during a head-on collision with a bus, the doctors told him he might never walk again, let alone play golf. He went on to win the US Open the following year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hogan#Career-threatening_accident



Submitted April 11, 2015 at 11:34PM by Gridelin http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32929z/til_after_professional_golfer_ben_hogan_threw/