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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
Sport
Roderick Easdale

UNCOVERED: Which professional golfers smoke cigarettes - The Untold Story

Charley hull smoking a cigarette.

Golf is a sport which you can play when smoking. Not only does a round of golf involve much standing and walking between shots, you can even smoke when actually playing a shot. Going through a picture library researching this article, I came across many pictures of players doing exactly that.

Indeed, one golf instructor uses a video of Ben Hogan doing this as as a teaching aid for his pupils. Hogan is practising shots with his cigarette holder clamped in his mouth and, in it, a lit cigarette, The instructor says the cigarette’s angle points out exactly where Hogan’s head position is during each moment of his swing. He even encourages his pupils to try a drill based on this, although he suggests using a chopped-down chopstick instead of a cigarette to hold in the mouth.

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