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: May 3

On this date in 1990, Brooks Koepka, the five-time major championship winner who returned to the PGA Tour in 2026 after joining the LIV tour, was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also, the late Pete Brown won the Waco Turner Open on this date in 1964 at Turner Lodge in Burneyville, Oklahoma, becoming the first African-American to win an official PGA Tour event.

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