Dave Stockton, a two-time PGA champion, was born on this date in 1941. The putting maestro has been a proficient author in his later years, namely "Own Your Game," "Unconscious Putting," "Unconscious Scoring," and from 1996, "Dave Stockton's Putt to Win."

A couple major figures had birthdays on November 1. Grantland Rice, the sportswriter closely aligned with the Golden Age of Sports, was born in 1880. And Gary Player was born in 1935. The South African World Golf Hall of Fame member won nine major championships and is still traveling the world as a legendary golf ambassador and member of the Big Three with Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.

Bobby Jones is not just an all-time playing great, but he is also considered the greatest golfer who could write well. He had ghost-writers at times, but he was a learned and adept scribe in his own right. Today's date is traditionally thought of in some references as the day his 1960 book, Golf Is My Game, was published.

Arnold Palmer recognized the value of proving his prowess on the world stage, which made him such a global star and icon. In the early 1960s he started playing the Open Championship, and shortly later became a familiar face around the world. On this date in 1966, he won an international title at the Australian Open, shooting rounds of 67-70-66-73—276, and earning first-place prize of $1,792. On the second week of his two-part trip to Aussie land one week later, he lost a two-hole playoff to Bob Stanton in the Dunlop International in Kensington.

As noted a few days ago, Arnold Palmer entered his declining years on the PGA Tour in the early 1970s. He is tied with Jack Nicklaus for the longest streak of winning at least one tour event each year with 17, starting in 1955 for AP. But he didn't win in 1972, and had his closest finish on this date that year when he went 65-69-71-69—274, to win $15,400 and finish one shot behind young newcomer Lanny Wadkins in the Sahara Invitational. It was Arnie's best finish out of 22 events, and it was played in Las Vegas at the Sahara Nevada C.C.

In the 1960s, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus were a dominant pair at the World Cup. On this date in 1963, at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Breteche, Paris, inclement weather shortened the final round to nine holes, but the King and the Bear still took first as a team. Palmer shot 69-70-72-34—245 to tie for fifth and Nicklaus' final nine-hole 32 was good enough to secure first place.

Celebrating a 61st birthday on this date is Patty Sheehan, the Vermont native who is in the World Golf Hall of Fame on the strength of 35 LPGA Tour wins, including six majors, among them two U.S. Women's Opens and three LPGA Championships. She played on five Solheim Cup teams and captained the Americans twice.

Arnold Palmer entered his fallow period on the PGA Tour in the early 1970s. His streak of winning at least one tour event each year starting in 1955 ended in 1972, when the closest he came to winning out of 22 events entered was one second-place finish. That tournament began on this date in '72 at the Sahara Invitational, played in Las Vegas at the Sahara Nevada C.C. Arnie shot his best round of 1972 in the first round with a 65. He went 69-71-69—274, to win $15,400 and finish one shot behind young newcomer Lanny Wadkins.

Herman Densmore Shute, better known as Denny, was born in Cleveland on this date in 1904, two years after Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen were born. Shute won 16 PGA Tour events, but held his own in the majors at a time when Snead, Hogan and Nelson were coming along. Shute won the 1933 Open Championship and went back to back in the PGA in 1936 and 1937. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.

Tall Australian Marc Leishman has been on a good roll in the last year, alternating wins with being in the hunt. He was in the mix again last weekend, losing a two-hole playoff to Justin Thomas at the CJ Cup in South Korea. In 2017 he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and then dominated at the BMW Championship. The 2009 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year celebrates his 34th birthday on this date.

World Golf Hall of Fame member Chi Chi Rodriguez celebrates his 82nd birthday today. Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Rodriguez' given name is Juan, but he got the nickname Chi Chi because he loved baseball and picked up on the name of local star Chi Chi Flores. One of the game's legendary showmen, Rodriguez won eight times on the PGA Tour, and 22 senior events from 1986 to 1993, plus two senior majors.

The 1967 Ryder Cup ended on this date with the usual final-day, Sunday Singles. But 50 years ago, there were eight morning matches and eight afternoon matchups as opposed to 12 singles matches total nowadays. The 1967 event was held at Champions Golf Club in Houston. The Americans had a 10-point lead heading into Singles, and won that session 10.5 to 5.5. Both Arnold Palmer and Al Geiberger won two matches each on the final day for the U.S., and Neil Coles was a two-time singles winner for Great Britain.

The LPGA Tour began in 1950, and on this date that year the final tournament of the season was played. Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg won 11 of the 15 events that first season, and Berg was the winner on Oct. 21, 1950, when she beat runner-up Betsy Rawls in the Hardscrabble Women's Invitation in Fort Smith, Ark.

Fifty years ago, at a time the United States was regularly bringing Great Britain down in the Ryder Cup, the match began on this date at Champions Golf Club in Houston. This is the match that featured the memorable line by U.S. captain Ben Hogan, who introduced his team in the opening dinner by saying each player's name and then intoning, "Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Ryder Cup team, the finest golfers in the world," and then sitting down. And this was a team without Jack Nicklaus, who was still serving his PGA membership waiting period and couldn't play despite the fact he'd won seven majors by then. Hogan's chutzpah was warranted; the Americans won 23.5 to 8.5.

The first U.S. Senior Women's Amateur was completed on this date in 1962. Held at Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club in Oreland, Pa., it was won by Maureen Orcutt with a score of 240, seven ahead of the legendary Glenna Collett Vare, who was 59 years old and had won six U.S. Women's Amateur titles. Orcutt also won the event in 1966.

The Lancome Trophy (or Trophée Lancôme) was a limited-field event played in the fall near Paris at Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France, which had been a French Open site in 1965 and 1969. It initially was held to attract the world's stars in an unofficial event from 1970 to 1981 to generate interest in French golf, but then they grew the field to an official European Tour stop from 1982 until its demise in 2003. Even though Arnold Palmer was past his main playing powers in 1970, he was still the premier draw and he played 10 times from 1970 to 1982. He did well, too. On this date in the inaugural, Arnie shot 68 and tied for second. He would win in 1971 and finish runner-up in 1976. The Arnie record in the Lancome Trophy: 1970, 68-71-68—207, T-2; 1971, 66-65-71—202, 1st; 1972, 74-68-73-70—285, 4th; 1973, 74-71-73-70—288, 8th; 1974, 73-71-71-77—298, 4th; 1975,  69-74-75-70—288, 5th; 1976, 75-70-69-70—284, 2nd; 1977, 75-73-75-69—292, 8th; 1979,  72-75-73-72—292, 8th; 1982, 73-72-68-68—281, T-4.

The greatest championship in golf had its start on this date in 1860 when the first Open Championship was held at Prestwick Golf club in Ayrshire, Scotland. Just eight players were in the first playing, won by Willie Park Sr. by two shots over Tom Morris Sr., immortalized as Old Tom. The field played three rounds in one day over the 12-hole course. Park's winning score was 174.

This is the date, in 1983, that Jack Nicklaus said one of the greatest shots he'd ever seen was played during the final day of the Ryder Cup at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Spain's Seve Ballesteros played a 3-wood from a fairway bunker on the par-5 18th that finished on the fringe, from where he secured a halve with Fuzzy Zoeller. It started a nip-and-tuck Sunday Singles conclusion in which Lanny Wadkins' heroic wedge shot on 18 guaranteed a halve in his match and the U.S. won a thrilling 14.5 to 13.5 match.

This is an off-year for the Ryder Cup, of course, but on this date in 1983, the playing that year was on Day 2 of three with the score tied at 8 heading into the final day of singles play. The RC was being played at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and the U.S. had won the eight team matches that day 4.5 to 3.5 to forge the 8-all tie. The Europeans were playing tough, headed by Seve Ballesteros, and giving the U.S. all it could handle.

Yesterday's Day in Golf put the spotlight on an inaugural event in amateur golf. Today's date does the same for a pro event. On this date in 1916, the first PGA Championship ended at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y., with "Long Jim" Barnes of England beating Scotland's Jock Hutchison, 1 up. The PGA wasn't played again for three years due to World War I.