Tourney returns in 2020 to the course where the former Buff won his first major in 1974
As a 14-year old and a sophomore-to-be on my high school golf team, with the U.S. Open in Mamaroneck, N.Y., just five miles from my house, my late father tried in vain to get tickets to one of the early rounds. It was slated for June 13-16, 1974 at Winged Foot Golf Club.
Little did I know that 10 years later I'd be named the sports information director at the alma mater of the winner that year – University of Colorado alum Hale Irwin, who captured his first of three U.