This Day in Golf History: August 17

A few PGA championships ended on this date, including in 1969 when Raymond Floyd won at NCR Country Club’s South Course in Dayton, Ohio. Floyd shot eight-under 276 to win by one shot over Gary Player of South Africa, who infamously had to deal with apartheid protestors. On this date in 1951, Arnold Palmer won the West Penn Amateur and in 1952 he won the Western Penn & Eastern Ohio Amateur.