This Day in Golf History: April 28

On this date in 1929, the U.S. was beat 5.5 to 2.5 in eight singles matches on Day 2 of the 2nd Ryder Cup. It was played at Moortown Golf Club in Leeds, England. Walter Hagen captained the American team and played in it, but the match-play legend was trounced, 10 and 8, by George Duncan. Great Britain won by a final score of 7-5. And Jim Thorpe, an African-American star who made his mark before the arrival of Tiger Woods, won the Senior Tradition on this date in 2002 at Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club. It was Thorpe’s only major victory and he got it in a playoff with John Jacobs, making a birdie on the first extra hole.