This Day in Golf History: May 21

The inaugural Curtis Cup Match—the women’s amateur event pitting teams from the U.S. and Great Britain against each other—was just a one-day event, held on May 21, 1932, at Wentworth Golf Club in England, as opposed to the two-day expanded version used presently. The format in 1932 was three foursomes and six singles matches. The Americans won, 5½ to 3½. Also, Gary Woodland, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, was born on this date in 1984 in Topeka, Kansas. Woodland’s career came about in miraculous fashion when he won the Texas Children's Houston Open on March 29, 2026, giving him his first PGA Tour victory in over six years after having brain surgery. His victory was both a physical and mental triumph as he battled hallucinatory thoughts.