Cliff Schrock
GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in Golf History: June 27

On this date in 1950, Arnold Palmer won the Nat’l Intercollegiate qualifying medal. On this date in 1950, a golfer with one of the coolest-sounding names won the PGA Championship, his only major. Chandler Harper defeated Henry Williams Jr., 4 and 3, at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, the course Jack Nicklaus grew up on. And also,. Walter Hagen won the 1924 Open Championship on this date at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. It was his second Open victory.

Cliff Schrock