He was NOT a doucher. You should read Ben Hogan: An American Life. He was really bad with the press but he was not a bad guy. You know who was a bad guy? Fucking Bobby Jones. Read the shit he used to do to professional golfers when he played golf. There's some good stuff in biographies of Walter Hagen like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Sir-Walter-Hagen-Invention-Professional/dp/0743204867/