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 5

Miyu Yamashita won the Women’s Open Championship. over the weekend at Royal Porthcawl in Wales, but on this date in 2007 Lorena Ochoa won the event at the Old Course at St. Andrews, leading start to finish and finishing four strokes ahead of Maria Hjorth and Jee Young Lee with a 72-hole five-under score of 287. And on this date in 1979, stoic Australian David Graham held off sentimental favorite Ben Crenshaw in a three-hole playoff at Oakland Hills Country Club to win the PGA Championship. Also on this date in 1965, Arnold Palmer shot a first-round 69 in the Philadelphia Golf Classic but withdrew the next day due to fatigue.

Cliff Schrock