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 9

Lawson Little won the U.S. Open on this date in 1940 in a playoff with sentimental favorite Gene Sarazen at Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland. Little shot 70 in the playoff to Sarazen’s 73. Also, the intense sectional U.S. Open qualifying stage was held this week for the 121st U.S. Open later in June. And on this date in 1934, Olin Dutra completed a comeback from eight shots behind after two rounds to win by one shot at the Merion Cricket Club.

Cliff Schrock