Cliff Schrock
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 Golf History: November 25

On this date in 1984, the second Skins Game ended with Jack Nicklaus winning with 9 skins and $240,000. Arnold Palmer had 0 skins. Others: Tom Watson 9 skins, $120,000; Gary Player 0 skins, $0. It was held at Desert Highlands in Scottsdale, Arizona, where the first Skins Game had been held the previous year. Also, Art Wall Jr., who battled Arnold Palmer in the amateur ranks then won the Masters behind and ahead of him in 1959, was born on this date in 1923 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

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