This Day in Golf--Oct. 13

The inaugural World Amateur Team Championship came to a rousing finish on this date in 1958 with the Australian team of Doug Bachli, Peter Toogood, Bruce Devlin and Robert Stevens edging the Bobby Jones-captained American team of Charles Coe, Bill Hyndman III, Billy Joe Patton and Dr. Frank Taylor Jr., 222-224, in a playoff. The two teams had tied after four rounds at 918, playing the Old Course at St. Andrews. Great Britain & Ireland was third at 919. The prize for the Aussies was the fabled Eisenhower Trophy.