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 Golf History: June 19

On this date in 1955, one of the biggest upsets in golf history took place when Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff at the U.S. Open held on the Olympic Club Lake Course. Fleck shot 69 to Hogan’s 72, cementing his name in golf lore for defeating the mighty Hogan.

Cliff Schrock