This Day in Golf History: December 26

On this date in 1993, the Senior PGA Tour, repped by Raymond Floyd, Jack Nicklaus and Chi Chi Rodriguez, won the Wendy’s Three-Tour Challenge at Colleton RIver Plantation at Hilton Head Island, S.C., shooting 11 under par. Also, born one year after the death of Young Tom Morris in 1875, fellow Scot Willie Smith was born and would develop into one of the game’s best players, along with brothers Alex and MacDonald, and win the 1899 U.S. Open. But like Morris, he would die young, age 40, from pneumonia on this date in 1916 in Mexico City where he had relocated.