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: November 14

Pausing this week to highlight special dates in Masters history with a focus on four-time winner Arnold Palmer: Arnie won his third green jacket in 1962. Played on April 5-9 , the 26th Masters had the tournament’s usual excitement, this time in a three-way playoff among Palmer, Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald. Arnold shot 31 on the second nine to win the playoff with 68 to Player’s 71 and Finsty’s 77. And on this date in 1888, the St. Andrew’s Golf Club, in Yonkers, New York, is believed to have opened, making it likely the first golf club in America. It had just six holes.

Cliff Schrock