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Hogan, Ben (William Benjamin) (1912–1997)| US golfer. In 1953 he became the only player to have won three of the four professional majors in a single year – the Masters, the US Open, and the British Open – a feat he achieved after a courageous recovery from a near-fatal car accident. |
US Open 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953 |
US PGA Championship 1946, 1948 |
Ryder Cup playing captain: 1947, 1949, 1951; non-playing captain: 1967 |
World Cup individual: 1956; team: 1956 |
Player of the Year 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953 |
| He turned professional at the age of 19 but had to wait eight years before gaining his first professional victory. In 1942 he won the Hale America National Open, a wartime substitute tournament for the US Open. In 1946 he won 13 of the 32 tournaments he entered. He won his first US Open in 1948, when he also won the US PGA Championship again. |
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