This Day in Golf History: August 7

On this date in 1960, emerging golf superstar Arnold Palmer won the Insurance City Open via a playoff with Bill Collins and Jack Fleck. It was Palmer’s 20th PGA Tour title; 1960 was his watershed year when he emerged as the main superstar in golf. At the Insurance City Open, he finished four rounds of 70-68-66-66—270 to tie for first with Collins and Fleck and then win in a three-hole, sudden-death playoff. First place was worth $3,500.