This Day in Golf History: May 7

A fast-play program called Operation Go-Golf is revealed to be a success at nine muny courses in Los Angeles in 1968, with 4,240 persons being tested for average playing time, which is tabulated at 3 hours 8 minutes. Seve Ballesteros, the five-time major champion of Spanish golf, died on this date in 2011, losing his battle with brain cancer at age 54.