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Year in Review
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Twelve championships in our record: seven majors (four men’s, three women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Ben Hogan won three of them: Masters, The Open and U.S. Open.
1953, coloured the way magazines tinted their plates then: by hand.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ed Oliver
b. 1912-08-13, Stephenville, Texas, USA; United States; age 40 at the win (year page); 7th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Birmingham Country Club, Birmingham
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Felice Torza
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1918-10-09, Detroit, Michigan; United States; age 34 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship Course), Carnoustie
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Antonio Cerda, Dai Rees, Frank Stranahan (a), Peter Thomson
To par not yet researched.
b. 1912-08-13, Stephenville, Texas, USA; United States; age 40 at the win (year page); 9th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Oakmont C.C., Oakmont
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sam Snead
b. 1912-08-13, Stephenville, Texas, USA; United States; 8th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Betsy Rawls
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 35 at the win (year page); 10th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Country Club of Rochester, Rochester
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jacqueline Pung
b. 1928-05-04, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 25 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Capital City Club, Atlanta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 7th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Harvie Ward
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1922-02-22, Inchicore, Ireland; Ireland; age 31 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, Oklahoma City
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dale Morey
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1930-07-21, San Diego, California, USA; United States; age 23 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Royal Porthcawl, Porthcawl
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Philomena Garvey
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1934-03-09, Cereal, Alberta, Canada; Canada
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Rhode Island C.C., Barrington
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Polly Riley
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1926, Chipley, Florida, United States; United States; age 27 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Our team-cup record so far: Ryder Cup.
Team cup
Wentworth Club (West Course), Wentworth
1 of 5 researched
Winner
USA
Runner-up: Great Britain
To par not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Twelve championships in our record: seven majors (four men’s, three women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Ben Hogan won three of them: Masters, The Open and U.S. Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1953: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1953.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
To be written The match: the captains, the score, the deciding points.
12 tour events are laid out week by week for 1953. The most winners’ circles, counted from those schedules: Ben Hogan (3).
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Ben Hogan won three championships in our record (Masters, The Open and U.S. Open).
To be written Who defined 1953: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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