This Day in Golf History: August 27

On this date in 1995, the Canadian du Maurier Classic was won by Jenny Lidback at Beaconsfield Golf Club in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, with an eight-under-par total of 280. She won by one over Liselotte Neumann of Sweden. Brooke Henderson was another Canadian who won her native country's CP Women's Open, by four shots in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,, in 2018. And on this date in 1957, Bernhard Langer, who won two Masters in his prime despite being plagued by the yips, was born in Anhausen, Germany. Langer had a second life with the long putter and continued to win well into his 60s on the senior tour.