This Day in Golf History: February 2

Today was a day of golf infamy. On February 2, 1949, a Wednesday, Ben Hogan and wife Valerie were returning home from the Phoenix Open to Fort Worth when a bus hit their car head-on near Van Horn in west Texas. Initial reports indicated Ben had died, but he survived only to require months of recovery from severe injuries. He came back to play professional golf again and ultimately win nine majors.