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: January 18

On this date in 1950, many newspaper editors were writing the headline "Sam Snead Spoils Storybook End for Ben Hogan" after Snead beat Hogan 72-76 in an 18-hole playoff to win the Los Angeles Open at par-71 Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. Hogan was attempting a comeback from his horrific near-fatal car-bus highway accident in Texas in February 1949. Hogan was the sentimental favorite of the 7,500 onlookers at fogbound Riviera. Snead won first prize of $2,600. The PGA Tour just announced that an alternate site for the L.A. Open, now Genesis Invitational, scheduled for February 10-16 will be announced soon now that Riviera has been in the destruction zone of the Los Angeles fire devastation.

Cliff Schrock