This Day in Golf History: May 8

The transformative figure of Arnold Palmer won the Southern Conference individual championship on this date in 1948. On the negative side, on May 8, 1955, Arnie shot the worst four-round score of his prime years with a total of 312 at the Colonial. Another transformative figure, Francis Ouimet, was born on this date in 1893 in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was there that the lifetime amateur won the 1913 U.S. Open in a playoff over two British greats, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, at The Country Club and established America as a place where champion golfers could come from.