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Hogan helped to design the original plans for the Trophy Club Country Club golf course in Trophy Club and 18 of the course's 36 holes are designated as the "Hogan" Course. Hogan played on two U.S. Ryder Cup teams, 1947 and 1951, and captained the team three times, 1947, 1949, and 1967, famously claiming on the last occasion to have brought the ...
Golf legend and Fort Worth resident Ben Hogan died in July of that year, and Woods never returned to the event Hogan helped make famous. Woods remained a regular participant at the Byron Nelson ...
Walter Charles Hagen (December 21, 1892 – October 6, 1969) was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. [1] His tally of 11 professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (15).
Fleck wanted to name him Snead Hogan Fleck, but they settled on Craig, after Craig Wood, the winner of the Masters and U.S. Open in 1941. [7] Lynn is credited with encouraging him to play on tour in the early 1950s and again in the early 1970s. [7] [15] She died in 1975 and Fleck remarried in 1980. [3] [16] He married his wife Carmen in 2001. [4]
After retiring from competitive golf in 1930, Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club soon afterwards in 1933. He also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has been annually staged by the club since 1934 (except for 1943–45, when it was canceled due to World War II ).
The car crash that sent Woods to the hospital on Tuesday and into emergency surgery carries echoes of Hogan’s crash 72 years ago this month.
Born in Dothan, Alabama, Dickinson was a student of Ben Hogan and crafted his swing in the Hogan tradition. He played college golf at Louisiana State, where he and teammate Jay Hebert led the Tigers to the national title in 1947. [2] In a long PGA Tour career, he won seven times between 1956 and 1971.
This, according to Tschetter, is the last time that Hogan ever played golf. They remained friends until his death in 1997. Tschetter has written a book called Mr. Hogan, the Man I Knew: An LPGA Player Looks Back on an Amazing Friendship and Lessons She Learned from Golf's Greatest Legend recounting her times with Hogan. [1]