This Day in Golf History: March 22

Winter-weary golfers rejoice: Spring temps have to be showing up soon. Today's anecdote celebrates that annual golf rite of spring, the Masters. On March 22, 1934, eventual winner Horton Smith was a coleader with 70 after the first round of the inaugural Masters, then called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament. Tournament and course creator and huge fan favorite Bobby Jones shot 76. On this date in 1964, Carol Mann, age 23, won the LPGA 35th Western Open at Scenic Hills Country Club in Pensacola, Florida. She shot 76 and 74 on the final day for a 72-hole total of 308, two shots better than Judy Kimball and Ruth Jessen. It was Mann’s first tour victory.