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: May 19

Brooks Koepka stumbled home with five bogeys in the last eight holes but still won the 2019 PGA Championship on this date on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park, by two shots over Dustin Johnson. And in one of the fastest earnings paces for its time, on this date in 1968, Billy Casper won the Colonial Invitation tournament in Fort Worth, which gave him $100,000 in earnings for the year in less than five full months.

Cliff Schrock