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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: December 5

Don January, who won the regular PGA Championship, on this date in 1982 won the PGA Seniors' Championship, at PGA National, by one shot, edging Julius Boros, who was the 1968 PGA champ. Arnold Palmer finished T-3. And on this date in 1959, Palmer shot a round-3 66 at the Coral Gables Open to post a T-3. In 2004, Arnold and grandson Sam Saunders finished Day 2 of Father-Son Challenge, shooting a second straight 65 for a T-12 finish.

Cliff Schrock