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: March 1

It is traditionally reported that on this date in 1938, the Federal Trade Commission prohibited the PGA of America and eight manufacturers from price fixing in the golf ball industry. And on this date in 1922, standout lifelong amateur Ed Updegraff was born in Boone, Iowa, Updegraff, a urologist by trade, did not win the U.S. Amateur, but he won several prominent events such as the Western Amateur twice and the U.S. Senior Amateur in 1981. A member of the Iowa and Arizona state golf halls of fame, his greatest honor was receiving the Bob Jones Award in 1999. He tied for 44th in the 1966 Masters.

Cliff Schrock