Difficult to choose between this and Frost’s other celebrated golf work The Greatest Game Ever Played, but while that was probably a more gripping tale, in terms of descriptive story-telling then this wins in a play-off. on the face it, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the two fading but still revered professionals, taking on the era’s two great amateurs, Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, was an unseemly money game set up by millionaires, but the foursomes encounter became known as “the greatest private match ever played”, lit up by the conflicting personalities.