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• Ben Hogan wins the first three legs of the modern Grand Slam (The Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open), but does not compete in the final leg, the PGA Championship.

• • The Tam O'Shanter World Championship becomes the first tournament to be nationally televised. Lew Worsham holes a 104yard (95 m) wedge shot on the final hole for eagle and victory in one of the most dramatic finishes ever.

• • The Canada Cup is instituted, the first event that brings together teams from all over the world. After 1966 the tournament is known as the World Cup. Argentina, whose two-man team of Roberto DeVicenzo, wins the inaugural tournament and Antonio Cerdá beats a 9-team field that includes a United States team of Julius Boros and Jim Turnesa. Within a couple of years, more than 30 nations are represented at the event, which becomes one of the most important fixtures on golf's calendar.

• • 1954 • • Sam Snead defeats Ben Hogan 70-71 in a playoff for the U.S. Masters • • Peter Thomson wins the British Open, the first of five victories he will achieve in the event.

• • Architect Robert Trent Jones, upon receiving complaints that he has made the par-3 fourth hole at Baltusrol too hard for the upcoming U.S. Open, plays the hole to see for himself and records a hole-in-one.

• • The U.S. Open is nationally televised for the first time.

• • The Tam O'Shanter World Championship offers the first $100,000 purse for a golf tournament. Bob Toski wins the $50,000 first prize.