This Day in Golf--Dec. 14

On this date in 1975, Jane Blalock won the 36-hole Colgate Triple Crown at Mission Hills CC in Palm Springs and top prize of $15,000, beating a field of nine players. Blalock, of Highland Beach, Fla., sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with JoAnne Carner and Judy Rankin. All three had finished with scores of 142.