On this date in 1956, amateur Ken Venturi shot a 66 to lead by one shot in the first round of the Masters. He would be four up with one round to go but shot an 80 in the final round to lose by one shot to Jack Burke Jr.
On this date in 1937, Byron Nelson won the 4th Masters and his first, by two shots over Ralph Guldahl.
In the ANA Inspiration finish on this date in 1983 when it was called the Nabisco Dinah Shore, Amy Alcott won by two shots over Beth Daniel and Kathy Whitworth at Mission Hills. This was the first year the event was considered a major championship.
With the ANA Inspiration being played this week, among tournament history moments was Juli Inkster winning the then named Nabisco Dinah Shore in 1989 at Mission Hills C.C. She won by five shots in a wire-to-wire victory.
On this date in 1990, it was no fooling when Jack Nicklaus won his first senior tour event at The Tradition at Desert Mountain, a Nicklaus design. Nicklaus won by four shots over Gary Player
On this date in 1996, Fred Couples had a final-round 64 to win the Players Championship for the second time, four shots in front of Tommy Tolles and Colin Montgomerie.
On this date in 1997, the Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf major (now the ANA Inspiration) was won at Mission Hills C.C. by 41-year old Betsy King, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. She won it for the third time, this time by two shots over Kris Tschetter and Amy Fruhwirth.
On this date in 1992, Dottie Pepper won the Nabisco Dinah Shore (now the ANA Inspiration) at Mission Hills CC. She defeated Juli Inkster in a sudden-death playoff on the first hole with a par.
On this date in 1993, Nick Price won The Players Championship with a score of 270 and a five-shot victory over Bernhard Langer.
On this date in 1994, Greg Norman finished off a record score of 264, 24 under par, to win the Players Championship by four shots over Fuzzy Zoeller at the Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach.
One of the more obscure LPGA major champions won her only major and only tour event on this date in 1995 when Nanci Bowen won the Nabisco Dinah Shore at Mission Hills CC by one shot over Susie Redman.
On this date in 1934, the first Masters concluded, with the then title Augusta National Invitation Tournament. Horton Smith was the winner when he birdied the 17th hole to win by one shot over Craig Wood. The hole is actually the present eighth; the nines were switched the following year so the back nine became the front and front became the back.
World Golf Hall of Fame member Pat Bradley was born on this date in 1951 in Westford, Massachusetts. She counts the 1981 U.S. Open among her greatest triumphs.
On this date in 1981, Raymond Floyd won the Players Championship (The TPC) at Sawgrass Country Club, beating Curtis Strange and Barry Jaeckel on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. The tournament finished on a Monday due to rain.
On this date in 1964 Carol Mann won the LPGA Western Open at Scenic Hills Country Club in Pensacola, Florida, a two-shot victory over Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball.
On this date in 1982, Jerry Pate won the first Players Championship played at the Stadium Course and celebrated by jumping into the 18th hole water hazard, pulling commissioner Deane Beman and architect Pete Dye in with him.
Harry Vardon, the golfer from Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands, died on this date in 1937 at age 66. For more than a century, Vardon has been the leading winner of the Open Championship with six victories. He also won the 1900 U.S. Open.
On this date in 1978, Jack Nicklaus won his third Players Championship, at Sawgrass Country Club, by one shot over Lou Graham.
On this date in 1951, the LPGA Titleholders Championship concluded at Augusta Country Club with Beverly Hanson finishing runnerup by two shots to Pat O'Sullivan.
The great amateur Grand Slam champion of 1930 Bobby Jones was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1902, also the same year Gene Sarazen was born. Jones, of course, was also the Georgia native who originated Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament.