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: August 20

On this date in 1962, after having lost a U.S. Open playoff to Jack Nicklaus in June of 1962, Arnold Palmer defeated Jack, 67-68, at a Norwood Hills C.C. exhibition. And on this date in 1944, the PGA Championship was won in an upset. Bob Hamilton won the 36-hole finale, 1 up, at Manito Golf & Country Club over the overwhelming favorite and 1940 winner Byron Nelson. The match was tied after the first 18. Nelson would win the following year.

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