This Day in Golf History: January 28

With San Diego the site for this week’s PGA Tour stop, on this date in 2007, Tiger Woods was in dominate form by winning the Farmers Insurance Open for his seventh consecutive PGA Tour victory, which is second for longest tour winning streak behind Byron Nelson’s 11 in 1945. On this date in 1990, Arnold Palmer won his 3rd Sr. Skins Game with $240,000, and in 1996 and 2001 he finished third both years in the Senior Skins. Also, Henry Cotton, a three-time winner of the Open Championship who had a variety of interests and was a regular author, was born on this date in 1907 at Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England in 1907.