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: January 23

LPGA golfer Yani Tseng was born on this date in 1989 in Taiwan. She won five majors in 2008 to 2011, and 27 tour titles by March 2012, but she hasn’t won since and continues to search for the magic that made her World No. 1 for more than 100 weeks. On this date in 2011, the first player from Venezuela, Jhonattan Vegas, to win on the PGA Tour won the Bob Hope Classic. On this date in 1961, Arnold Palmer received the Hickok Belt in Rochester, N.Y., for being named the Pro Athlete of the Year.

Cliff Schrock