The Open Question: Ben Hogan and Golf's Most Enduring Controversy

In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year-it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles.



In The Open Question, Peter May turns his attention to this controversial, colorful Hale-America National Op...