Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
Although practically no places are open now for upperclassmen in the NROTC, opportunities in the naval reserve are almost unlimited, said Lieutenant Commander William Hogan, of the Boston Office of Officer Procurement. Hogan added that the expanding naval air program needs...
GOLF: Bobby Jones (293), Ben Hogan (40), Walter Hagen...
...hour and three-quarters later, as he walked off the 18th green with a swollen 76, Ben was four strokes down, and Sam Snead was the winner. Ben Hogan smiled wanly at the crowd and said: "I'm terribly sorry I didn't play better today . . . I hope I'll give you a better show here next year...
...went off to Palm Springs, Calif, for a rest. He had to pull himself together for this week's Phoenix Open, which has been rechristened the Ben Hogan Open. He wanted to be ready for that one; it was the last tournament he had played before the auto accident last February that nearly killed...