This Day in Golf History: December 14

On this date in 1975, Jane Blalock won the LPGA Colgate Triple Crown at Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs, California, taking home $15,000. Also, the 1931 U.S. Open champion, Billy Burke, was born on this date in Naugatuck, Connecticut, one of the “valley towns” northwest of New Haven, in 1902, which made him a contemporary of Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen, also born that year.