This Day in Golf--March 17

Honor Arnie Week: In March 1948, at age 18, Arnold Palmer played in his first PGA Tour event—as an amateur—at the Greater Greensboro Open, which was held at Sedgefield Country Club on the 19th to 21st. He shot rounds of 78-76—154 to miss the 36-hole cut. Non-Arnie item: Grand Slam champion and Masters founder Bobby Jones was born on this day in 1902.