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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in U.S. Open History: June 19

One of the most shocking results in major history took place on this date in 1955 when Jack Fleck upset Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff at the Olympic Club to win by three shots. It would have been Hogan’s fifth U.S. Open, a record, but instead was Fleck’s only major.

Cliff Schrock