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: April 25

Birthday milestones on April 25 belong to five-time PGA Tour winner Nick Watney, born in 1981, and one of the most diminutive major championship winners in history, Jerry Barber, born on this date in 1916 in Woodson, Illinois, west of Springfield. Barber was 5-5, 137 pounds, and won the 1961 PGA Championship in a playoff over Don January. Barber made a pair of consecutive monster-length putts to win the PGA; he also holds the record for the oldest to play a tour event; he was 77 years 10 months 9 days when he played in the 1994 Buick Invitational, where he missed the cut.

Cliff Schrock