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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 ...
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.
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 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.
Murray’s parents confirmed he died by suicide in a statement released through the PGA Tour on May 26. "We have spent the last 24 hours trying to come to terms with the fact that our son is gone ...
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.
Golf legend Tiger Woods shared a heartwarming moment with his son Charlie Woods after the teenager hit a shot of a lifetime. During Sunday’s final round of the PNC Championship in Orlando ...
The 1946 PGA Championship was the 28th PGA Championship, held August 19–25 at Portland Golf Club outside Portland, Oregon. Ben Hogan won the match play championship, 6 and 4 over Ed Oliver in the final; the winner's share was $3,500 and the runner-up's was $1,500.