Fergus Bisset looks back at Ben Hogan’s heroics in the 1950 US Open – one of the most impressive Major victories of all time
Ben Hogan Golf’s Greatest Comeback
Tiger Woods said this week ahead of The Masters that Ben Hogan’s comeback was the greatest in sports history.
Woods was asked if victory at Augusta would be sport’s greatest comeback.
“I think that one of the greatest comebacks in all of sport is the gentleman who won here, Mr Ben Hogan. I mean, he got hit by a bus and came back and won major championships,” he said.
“The pain he had to endure, the things he had to do just to play and just how hard it was for him to walk, and he ended up walking 36 holes (in one day) and winning a US Open.”
Here, Fergus Bisset looks back at Hogan’s 1950 US Open victory, which came just 16 months after being involved in a car crash
The fact that Ben Hogan even played in the 1950 US Open at Merion is incredible, as 16 months earlier he almost died in a car crash. That he won is beyond belief. It’s an amazing story and cemented Hogan as a golfing legend.
en Hogan was something of a late bloomer as a professional golfer. Born in 1912, just months after Byron Nelson and Sam Snead, the early part of Hogan’s career was tough in comparison to his famous rivals, both of whom had won more than ten tournaments by the time Hogan claimed his first.
Hogan turned pro in 1930 at the age of 17, a year before Snead and two years before Nelson, but it wasn’t until 1940 that the Texan won his first individual professional event. He spent his first years in the paid ranks as a poorly remunerated club pro and more than once found himself flat broke. But he had great support from his girl, and from 1935 wife, Valerie, who always believed in him. Without her support he might have been inclined to throw in the towel.
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