This Day in Golf History: July 3

One of the most stirring results in golf history took place on this date in 1954. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, battling cancer, won the U.S. Women’s Open at Salem C.C. in Peabody, Massachusetts, north of Boston. Her score of 291 won by 12 shots, a little more than a year after colon cancer surgery. Also, on this date in 1971, Arnold Palmer shot a third-round 70 at the Canadian Open to eventually finish T-11.