This Day in Golf History: June 11

With the U.S. Open this week being played at Oakmont C.C., on this date in 1953, Arnold Palmer shot an 84 at Oakmont in his first-ever U.S. Open round. Also at Oakmont on this date, in 1962, Palmer cut his right-hand middle finger loading his car trunk pre-U.S. Open. And on this date in 1950, Ben Hogan memorably won the 50th U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club in a playoff with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio after finishing four rounds with scores of 287. Hogan shot 69 in the playoff to Mangrum’s 73 and Fazio’s 75. The victory culminated Hogan’s comeback from a severe auto-bus accident in 1949 that nearly took his life.