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 29

On this day in 1959, Arnold Palmer won the West Palm Beach Open, with rounds of 72-67-66-76—281, for $2,000. He defeated Gay Brewer and Pete Cooper in a four-hole, sudden-death playoff. Also, the inaugural Walt Disney World Open Invitational began on this date with a practice round at the Disney Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Jack Nicklaus would end up winning first prize of $30,000 in the rain-delayed event that ended on a Monday. Nicklaus won with a 15-under total of 273. The first prize of $30,000 pushed him up to $244,490 (and 50 cents) for the year to set a PGA record, breaking his own mark of four years earlier of $211,566.66.

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