This Day in Golf History: July 24

Don January won a playoff on this date in 1967 to take the PGA Championship at Columbine Country Club in Columbine Valley, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver. January defeated Don Massengale in an 18-hole playoff, 69-71. Also, the ISPS Handa Senior Open Championship is being competed this weekend at Sunningdale’s Old Course. On this date in 2005, Tom Watson won his second of three Senior Open titles, at Royal Aberdeen, winning in a playoff with Des Smyth of Ireland. Arnold Palmer shot a one-over 73 in 1964 on this date at a Green Valley exhibition in Sioux City, Iowa. And in 1998, Palmer shot a second-round 76 to make the U.S. Senior Open cut for the final time (finished 51st).