Cliff Schrock
GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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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 Golf History: June 19

Ben Hogan was denied his fifth U.S. Open on June 19, 1955, when unheralded Jack Fleck beat him in a playoff, 69-72, on the Olympic Club Lake Course. Fleck played well at the end of regulation to tie Hogan, who had finished ahead of him and seemed secure as the champion. He was so sure, in fact, he gave the USGA's Joe Dey his golf ball after finishing his round and said it was meant to go in the USGA's museum at Golf House.

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