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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in Golf--Nov. 27

Even the casual golf fan is fairly astute about what Arnold Palmer did in 1960. Won the Masters and U.S. Open, nearly won the Open Championship at St. Andrews, upped the interest big-time in his persona as well as in the game. But on this date, he won the Mobile Sertoma Open. Don't worry, most people haven't heard of it, either. It was a PGA Tour event that was only around a few years, played on Mobile, Alabama's municipal golf course. Arnie shot 68-67-74-65—274, for first place and $2,000. It topped off a year in which he entered 27 events, won eight times and  $75,263, and had a scoring average of 69.95.

 

Cliff Schrock