This Day in Golf History: June 28

On this date in 1949, Arnold Palmer earned the Nat’l Intercollegiate qualifying medal as a Wake Forest golfer, but in 1964 he lost a playoff to Tony Lema in the Cleveland Open, Also, Alf Perry won the 70th playing of the Open Championship on this date in 1935 with a score of five under par for 72 holes at Muirfield, Scotland. The greatest women’s player of all time, Mickey Wright, won her first of four U.S. Opens on this date in 1958 at Forest Lake Country Club . She was six shots ahead of Louise Suggs.