SAN ANTONIO — It’s been 26 long years since David Ogrin posted his debut victory on the PGA Tour — one in which he held off a youngster named Tiger Woods — and although the memory of the win fades, Ogrin was recently noteworthy thanks to an unbecoming stat.
Ogrin was the last player to make a triple-bogey during the final round of his first PGA Tour victory, a distinction he almost kicked when Davis Riley nearly did the same at the Valspar Championship (although Riley later lost in a playoff).
Ogrin held on for the victory and the $216,000 top prize at the 1996 Texas Open, edging Woods by two strokes and Jay Haas by one at La Cantera Golf Club, all despite a triple on the par-3 sixth hole and a bogey on the tournament’s final hole.
