This Day in Golf History: August 3

Sam Snead, the ageless one who played the greatest golf of anyone in history the latest in life, was 67 years, 2 months and 7 days when he set the record on this date in the 1979 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in Birmingham, Michigan, to be the oldest player to make the cut in a major. Snead had won the PGA in 1942, 1949 and 1951. iSam Snead made the cut at the PGA Championship. He had rounds of 73-71 to make the cut by two strokes, and shot 71-73 on the weekend to tie for 42nd.