Ben Hogan's Majors

Ben Hogan won nine major championships, all of them in the eight years from 1946 through 1953. That's despite the fact that that period was interrupted by World War II, and then Hogan's career (and nearly his life) was interrupted by a 1949 car crash.

The crash caused him great pain the rest of his career and life, and kept him from playing the PGA Championship again until the PGA switched from match play to stroke play (match play required multiple days of 36 holes).

Ben Hogan's Majors
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• 1946 PGA Championship
• 1948 PGA Championship
• 1948 U.S. Open
• 1950 U.S. Open
• 1951 Masters
• 1951 U.S. Open
• 1953 Masters
• 1953 U.S. Open
• 1953 British Open

Note that Hogan's major run concluded with three wins in 1953 - he won all three majors he entered that year.

Something else that's interesting to note: Hogan was an established winner long before he claimed his first major. In fact, he won 30 other tournaments before winning his first major - the record for most PGA Tour wins prior to a golfer's first major championship victory. In modern times, Hogan would have been labeled "best golfer not to win a major," and his "failing" would be talked about and written about at every major every year. In the 1930s and 1940s, Hogan wasn't put through that torment.