This Day in Golf History: February 22

Three major championship winners were born on this date. In 1937 Tommy Aaron (1973 Masters) was born in Gainesville, Georgia. Five-time major winner Amy Alcott was born in Kansas City in 1956, and in 1963, three-time major champ Vijay Singh was born in Fiji. And a notorious murder took place on this date in 1831, and a famous golf course got its name from the murder victim. Dutchman Baltus Roll, 61, was murdered on his farm, in his farmhouse on Watchung Mountain, in the area of Springfield, New Jersey. Roll was murdered at night by two would-be robbers who thought he had gold coins in the house--which he did not. Over time, Roll's name remained in local lore, and was adapted when Baltusrol Golf Club came into existence on Baltus Roll's farmland.