Happy birthday, Colorado — and Colorado sports.

Leading into the state’s 150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame to publicize the definitive list of Colorado’s top 150 sports moments.

Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian Dave Plati and a committee of 10 compiled and will release the list every week until the No. 1 moment on July 31. Plati and Broncos icon Jim Saccomano will unveil the list weekly on a Colorado Sports Hall of Fame podcast at coloradosports.org/podcast/.

No. 100 — Aug. 22, 1948

Ben Hogan won the Denver Open at Wellshire Golf Course, defeating Fred Haas Jr., by one stroke. Hogan’s 18-under-par 270 scorecard earned him $2,150. It was his sixth straight win on the PGA Tour, the second-longest streak at the time and still tied for the third-longest streak. (It was not matched until 2000 by Tiger Woods.) Wellshire opened in August 1926 and will celebrate its 100th anniversary this summer. Its history includes the longest active continuous tournament in Colorado (the Wellshire 4-ball); Arnold Palmer finishing third in the 1958 Denver Open, two years before returning to the state to win the U.S. Open; and Bill Wright winning the 1959 Public Links title, the first African American to win a major golf tournament.

— Dave Plati, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian