This Day in Golf History: December 24

At this festive season of the year, today and tomorrow’s day in history will feature a couple of deaths. Today on Christmas Eve, in 2003, Herman Keiser, the surprise 1946 Masters champion and Springfield, Missouri, native, died at age 89 in Akron, Ohio. Also, Margaret Curtis passed away on this date in 1965. She and sister Harriot were not only excellent players but were very charity minded. They were the ones to donate the cup that is played for in the Curtis Cup biennial competition between women amateurs from the U.S. and Great Britain & Ireland. In 2026 it will be held on June 12-14 at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, California.