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Second, the PGA required several days of 36 holes per day competition, and after his 1949 auto accident, Hogan struggled to manage more than 18 holes a day. After the win at Carnoustie, Hogan and his wife Valerie were passengers on the SS United States westbound to New York City, where he received a ticker tape parade down Broadway on July 21.
He attended Lincoln High School and was the San Francisco high school golf champion in 1948 and 1949. [6] Venturi also attended San José State University, where he was a member of the Spartan men's golf team from 1951 through 1953. [7] In the early 1950s, he was a pupil of Byron Nelson, and was also influenced by playing partner Ben Hogan.
He joined the military in 1942 and served in the U.S. Navy as a quartermaster; [7] he participated in the D-Day invasion from a British rocket-firing ship off Normandy's Utah Beach. [8] Within two weeks after his discharge from the service, Fleck was on the PGA's winter golf tour with pro friends trying to qualify for PGA Tour events.
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It was the following week that his family noticed his unusual radio silence. On the night of Monday, Jan. 17, Joseph called an L.A. number that belonged to someone who had sent Dominic two text ...
Ben asks him to level with him, and Williams says that it's about the legs, the stamina needed. Hogan "can't shoot 69s for four days in a row on guts." This time the big gallery is rooting for him, and Hogan does well even through days of pouring rain. The sun comes out on the 18th green, and Hogan ends with 69 for the last round, leading the ...
A Utah family is grieving the loss of a young mother, who died of a heart condition days after Christmas and just over a week after giving birth to twins. Morgan Aubrey Hughes, 23, died Dec. 28 at ...