This Day in U.S. Open History: June 16

Today’s date in 1974 is one that will live in golf infamy. Hale Irwin won the U.S. Open Championship with a score of seven over par in the famous Massacre at Winged Foot that took down Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson, among others. It was Irwin’s first of three U.S. Open victories, this one by two over runner-up Forrest Fezler.