1953
Champion: Ben Hogan
Avg. score for the field: 77.12
Rounds under par for field: 20
Purse: $14,900
Entries: 1,669
HISTORY LESSON
The now commonplace walkways that link tee box to tee box, and tee box to fairway, came about as a result of Ben Hogan's griping. As legend has it, with dew saturating the rough, Hogan complained about how soaked his shoes, socks and pants got — yet was perplexed, because he never missed a fairway. He finally realized that his trips through the rough occurred only when walking from the tee box to the fairway. The solution was to carve out "Hogan's walkways."
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