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The U.S. Open

U.S. Open Week Rewind: 1954 Club Pro Ed Furgol Wins at Baltusrol

June 17, 2020Jay Flemma

For today’s U.S. Opern re-write, we celebrate unheralded, but definitely worthy winner Ed Furgol, the club pro who shocked the world winning the U.S. Open at Baltusrol in 1954. And he did it with a withered left arm. It happens once every dozen years or so, someone wins the Opn out of nowhere. Before there was Michael Campbell or Orville Moody or even Jack...

The Longest Shot – Club Pro Ed Furgol Wins the 1954 U.S. Open at Baltusrol

August 2, 2016Jay Flemma

SPRINGFIELD, NJ – —“I didn’t win despite my handicap, but because of it – just as Hogan came back from that automobile accident, and Babe Zaharias came back from a cancer operation. — Ed Furgol after winning The 1954 U.S. Open at Baltusrol At precisely 9 o’clock the sun went down with a last vermillion flash behind old Baltus...