This Day in Golf History: May 4

Rory McIlroy, Bob Tway and Betsy Rawls were all born on this date. McIlroy, the recent Masters Tournament winner and career Grand Slam achiever, was born in 1989. Tway, who won the 1986 PGA, was born 30 years earlier in 1959. And Rawls was born in 1928 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The World Golf Hall of Fame member, who won four U.S. Women’s Opens, died October 21, 2023.