This Day in Golf History: January 10

On this date in 1950, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead tied at the Los Angeles Open for first in Hogan’s incredible return to golf after his infamous car-bus accident in west Texas. Snead would win the playoff, however. And one of golf history’s unheralded lone-major winners, Bob Hamilton, was born on this date in Evansville, Indiana, in 1916. That is the same year the PGA Championship was played for the first time, a major Hamilton won in 1944.