This Day in Golf History: November 26

Fred Herd, one of the foreign players who dominated the U.S. Open in the early years, was born on this date in 1873 in St. Andrews, Scotland. He won the fourth U.S. Open, in 1898, when it was played at the Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, which was the first U.S. Open to be competed at 72 holes.