GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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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 Arnie Golf--Sept. 7

Now through what would have been Arnold Palmer's 88th birthday on Sept. 10, This Day in Golf will look at lesser-known Arnie dates: Sept. 7, 1986, was the final day of the Chrysler Cup, a senior tour version of the Ryder Cup but with the Americans versus the Internationals. In that first year, the U.S. won quite easily, with Arnie as captain (he captained all five years it was played with a 4-1 record), and it was during the inaugural event at the TPC at Avenel course in Potomac, Md., that he aced the 187-yard No. 3 hole two days in a row using the same 5-iron.

Cliff Schrock