This Day in Golf History: February 5

Playoffs are a common event on the PGA Tour. On this date in 1966, Arnold Palmer shot his best score of the Bob Hope Desert Classic that year, a 67, in the fourth round, then lost a playoff the next day when he and Doug Sanders tied at 349. Sanders won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Also, World Golf Hall of Famer José María Olazábal, who won the 1994 and 1999 Masters, was born on this date in 1966 in Hondarribia, Spain.