Ralph M. Bogart was born in Annapolis and settled in Chevy Chase, MD. He attended George Washington University before enlisting as a Naval pilot in World War II. Ralph received a commendation from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, for his heroism when he evacuated injured soldiers during inclement weather in the Okinawa campaign.
No one was more successful in the history of the Maryland Amateur than Bogart, who dominated the event for twenty years by winning ten championships, beginning in 1948. That Championship was followed with victories in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1964, and 1967. His 26 Maryland State Golf Association titles are the most in history. They include MSGA Father-Son Championships that span 45 years, from the first in 1948 with his father and then with his son in 1993 when he was 71, as well as the 1976 and 1979 Maryland Senior Amateur Championships.
Bogart earned at least 124 titles, alone or as a part of a two-man team, during his illustrious career. He won the Middle Atlantic Golf Association Championship four times and the D.C. Amateur (now known as the Washington Metropolitan Golf Association) three times. Bogart was the Middle Atlantic Golf Association Senior Champion four times. He won the Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot five times and the Belle Haven Four Ball seven times with partner Bobby Brownell. He qualified for thirty-one United States Golf Association Championships, including four U.S. Opens, eleven US Amateurs, and won the Chevy Chase Club championship fourteen times.
Ralph Bogart was a past president of the Maryland State Golf Association and the Middle Atlantic Golf Association. He was inducted into the Middle Atlantic Golf Association Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
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