This Day in Golf--May 20

Many parts of the country felt July weather recently, but we are in May, which makes it unusual to observe an Open Championship historical note since we are used to the Open being played in July. But in 1897, the Open was played on May 19 and 20, 36 holes each day, with amateur Harold Hilton winning, at Hoylake in England, for his second victory, this time by a stroke over James Braid. Hilton was also a four-time winner of the British Amateur.