This Day in Golf History: May 9

On this date in 1870, Harry Vardon, the only six-time winner of The Open Championship and a member of golf history’s Great Triumvirate with James Braid and J.H. Taylor, was born on Jersey of the Channel Islands. He has a type of grip named after him—the overlap is known as the Vardon grip—and the Vardon Trophy on tour is named after him for the lowest stroke average for a year. He also won the 1900 U.S. Open.