This Day in Golf History: July 29

On this date in 1956, Kathy Cornelius won the U.S. Women’s Open, the fourth run by the USGA, at Northland Country Club with Cornelius winning over Barbara McIntire, an amateur, by seven shots in an 18-hole playoff. Also, on this day in 1934, Little Poison, aka Paul Runyan, defeated Craig Wood, 1 up, in the final of the PGA Championship at the Park Club of Buffalo, New York. Runyan was diminutive in size but made up for a lack of length with a dynamite short game and pinpoint fairway woods. He would take down Sam Snead four years later.