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 8

One of the many surprise winners in U.S. Open History won on this date in 1935 at Oakmont when club pro Sam Parks, Jr., beat long-hitting Jimmy Thomson by two shots. Parks, an area native, won with a score of 299, 11 over par. Also, in 1970, Arnold Palmer received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Wake Forest. And in 2010, Palmer, Nicklaus, Player played an 19-hole scramble, The Big Three for Mountain Mission Kids School, Grundy, Va., raising a record $15 million.

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