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Wingfoot Golf Club in Mamerah, New York, just north of Manhattan was established in 1921.

It's two courses, the West and East, where design by renowned architect,

AW Tilling Hass, and open for play in 1923.

Tilling Hass also design courses like Baltechrol, Beth Page Black.

You probably heard of these courses, so clearly Tilling Hass, he knew what he was doing.

Today the two courses make up at Wingfoot, perhaps the best 36-hole facility property in the entire country.

The West course is hosted five US opens and is often ranked well inside the top 10 of all courses in America.

It's also one of the toughest golf courses on Earth.

In 1974, in the US open, Hill Irwin at Wingfoot on the West course, won by posting a score of 7 over par, any 1 by 2.

Wingfoot will next host the US open in 2020, but most recently, Wingfoot hosted the 2006 US Open.

That year, Phil Nicholson entered the event as the 2005 PGA champ, as the 2006 Masters champ,

and had already finished running up three times in previous US opens.

Coming off back-to-back, major wins, Phil was very clearly a strong favorite.

After battling, after grinding, after sweating for four long days, Phil came to the 72nd hole of a very difficult,

very tricky par 4 with a 1 stroke lead. He was 4 over par.

Now, some of the games all time great like Bobby Jones and even Billy Casper had come to this exact position in this exact spot.

They'd been in a position to close out a US open title and to do it at Wingfoot and they had done it.

Despite driving it poorly all day, Phil did what, while he did what Phil does, and he pulled driver on a hole where fighting the fairway is paramount.

Now, Ben Hogan is tied for the most US open wins of all time. He's got four.

The most interesting broadcaster in the world, my man Johnny Miller, he couldn't help but reference Ben Hogan,

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