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 30

The 1937 PGA Championship ended on this date at the Pittsburgh Field Club. The defending champion Denny Shute won over Harold (Jug) McSpaden in 37 holes. Counting Walter Hagen’s four in a row and Jim Barnes winning two in a row with two off years in the middle, winning the PGA consecutively has happened nine times. That includes Brooks Koepka. On today’s date in 1937, Shute won his second in a row after he had won the previous year at Pinehurst, 3 and 2, over Jimmy Thomson.

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