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: December 7

Today’s date that will live in infamy does not feel like a golf one but there’s a good anecdote anyway: On this date in 1980, Arnold Palmer defeated Paul Harney in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff with a birdie to win the PGA Seniors' Ch. at Turnberry Isle C.C. And on this date in 1969, Palmer won the Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic with a final-round 65 and four-round aggregate of 270. He won $25,000. The previous week he had won the inaugural Heritage Golf Classic, giving him back-to-back victories.

Cliff Schrock