This Day in Golf History: June 23

On this date in 1985, Arnold Palmer shot a final-round 68 to win the Senior TPC. Also, the astounding William Lawson Little, Jr., was born on this date in 1910 in Newport. A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, he won the U.S. Amateur and (British) Amateur Championship in 1934 and 1935, and later in 1940 won the U.S. Open. His tendency to use as many as 25 or more clubs in his bag was one of the reasons the USGA limited the number of clubs a golfer could use to 14. And a pair of U.S. Open playoffs ended on this date. In 1963, Julius Boros defeated Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, and in 1975, John Mahaffey lost to Lou Graham at Medinah C.C. near Chicago.