History of Golf
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28 | sep | 1977 | Se Ri Pak was born in Daejeon, South Korea |
27 | sep | 1939 | Kathy Whitworth, the first woman to reach career earnings of $1 million on the LPGA Tour, was born in Monahan, Texas |
27 | sep | 1956 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias dies of Colon Cancer |
7 | sep | 1923 | Louise Suggs, winner of 11 Ladies’ majors, was bon in Atlanta, Georgia |
27 | oct | 1956 | Patty Sheehan was born |
9 | oct | 1970 | Annika Sorenstam, winner of 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors, was born in Stockholm, Sweden |
6 | oct | 2002 | Shiv Kapur became only the second Indian to win an Asian Games gold medal, in Busan, Korea |
5 | oct | 1963 | Laura Davies, winner of the Ladies European Tour (LET) Order of Merit a record seven times, was born in Coventry, England |
2 | oct | 1969 | INDIA INVITED TO WORLD CUP in Singapore. Ruda Valji and Shadi Lal formed the Indian contingent |
25 | nov | 1982 | INDIA WIN INAUGURAL ASIAN GAMES GOLD. ‘Bunny’ Lakshman Singh, Rajeev Mohta, Rishi Narain and Amit Luthra represented the Indian team. Lakshman Singh won the Individual gold and Mohta the silver |
15 | nov | 1981 | Lorena Ochoa is born in Guadalajara, Mexico |
13 | jun | 2002 | JEEV BECOMES FIRST INDIAN TO PLAY the US Open |
17 | jul | 1997 | Gaurav Ghei became the first Indian Open to qualify for the British Open |
12 | jul | 1988 | Inbee Park was born in Seoul, South Korea |
22 | feb | 1956 | Amy Alcott was born in Kansas City, Missouri |
16 | feb | 1964 | Inception of Indian Open. Peter Thomson of Australia won the inaugural tournament in Delhi by two strokes |
14 | feb | 1935 | Mickey Wright, who won 82 events on the LPGA Tour, was born in San Diego, California |
14 | feb | 1965 | PG “Billoo” Sethi wins Indian Open |
13 | feb | 1918 | Patty Berg, whose 15 major title wins was the all-time record for most major wins by a female golfer as of Nov 2021, was born in Minneapolis |
21 | dec | 1974 | Karrie Webb was born in Quensland, Australia |
15 | dec | 1971 | Jeev Milkha Singh is born in Chandigarh to Milkha Singh and Nirmal Kaur |
5 | aug | 2007 | JEEV BECOMES FIRST INDIAN TO PLAY AT AUGUSTA MASTERS |
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29 | Sep | 1923 | Gene Sarazen wins a 38 hole matchplay final over Walter Hagen to win the PGA Championship |
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25 | Sep | 1926 | Walter Hagen beats Leo Diegel 5 & 3 to win his 3rd consecutive PGA Championship, 4th overall. |
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18 | Sep | 1956 | Pro golfer John Weitzel was killed in a car accident on the way home from a Pro-Am tournament |
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10 | Sep | 1929 | Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest of all time, is born in Latrobe, PA |
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4 | Sep | 1942 | Raymond Floyd was born |
4 | Sep | 1949 | Tom Watson was born |
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3 | Sep | 1973 | Billy Casper wins his 50th PGA Tour title winning the Greater Hartford Open |
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19 | Oct | 1982 | Louis Oosthuizen was born |
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17 | Oct | 1860 | The first Open Championship was played at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. |
17 | Oct | 1969 | Ernie Els was born |
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6 | Oct | 1996 | Tiger Woods wins his first PGA Tour event – in his fifth tournament as a professional – in a play off over Davis Love III at the Las Vegas Invitational |
5 | Oct | 1900 | Harry Vardon wins the US Open at the Chicago Golf Club, becoming the first player to win both the US Open and The Open |
5 | Oct | 1986 | Fred Wadsworth wins the PGA Tour’s Southern Open as a Monday qualifier |
4 | Oct | 1864 | St. Andrews Golfers (now the Royal and Ancient Golf Club) reduces the Old Course from 22 holes to 18 holes |
4 | Oct | 1873 | St. Andrews hosts The Open for the first time, following 12 editions at Prestwick, and was won by Tom Kidd of Scotland |
4 | Oct | 1895 | Newport Country Club hosts the first US Open, won by England’s Horace Rawlins |
3 | Oct | 1895 | C B MacDonald wins the first US Amateur, 12 and 11, over Charles Sands at the Newport Country Club |
3 | Oct | 1959 | Fred Couples was born |
3 | Oct | 1987 | Danny Willett was born |
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20 | Nov | 1997 | Nancy Lopez is selected as the recipient of the 1998 Bob Jones Award, the ninth woman to receive the award |
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15 | Nov | 2004 | Charles Sifford became the first African American to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame |
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12 | Nov | 1987 | Jason Day was born |
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10 | Nov | 1994 | Jon Rahm was born |
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5 | Nov | 1978 | Bubba Watson was born |
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3 | Nov | 1995 | Judy Bell was nominated to serve as the first female president of the USGA. |
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1 | Nov | 1935 | Three-time USGA champion and one of only five men to have a career slam, Gary Player, was born |
1 | Nov | 1935 | Gary Player was born |
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27 | May | 1912 | Sam Snead, whose record of 82 tour wins was broken by Tiger Woods, was born |
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25 | May | 1984 | Rafael Cabrera Bello was born |
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24 | May | 2021 | Phil Mickelson becomes the oldest man to win a Golf Major with his PGA Championship win at Ocean Course at Kiawah Island |
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12 | May | 1970 | Jim Furyk was born |
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9 | May | 1870 | Harry Vardon was born |
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4 | May | 1928 | Betsy Rawls was born |
4 | May | 1989 | Rory McIlroy was born |
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3 | May | 1990 | Brooks Koepka was born |
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29 | Mar | 1998 | Aditi Ashok was born in Bangalore |
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24 | Mar | 1958 | Pat Bradley was born |
24 | Mar | 1977 | Jason Dufner was born |
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19 | Mar | 1871 | John Henry Taylor was born |
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17 | Mar | 1902 | Bobby Jones, who won 13 Golf Majors in 8 years before retiring at age 28, and was the founder of the August Masters, was born |
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26 | Jun | 1911 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships, was born in Port Arthur, Texas |
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24 | Jun | 1960 | Juli Inkster nee Simpson, the only golfer in LPGA Tour history to win two majors in a decade for three consecutive decades, was born in Santa Cruz, California |
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22 | Jun | 1984 | Dustin Johnson was born |
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21 | Jun | 1978 | Matt Kuchar was born |
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16 | Jun | 1970 | Phil Mickelson, the oldest man to win a major, was born |
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4 | Jun | 1943 | Sandra Haynie was born |
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3 | Jun | 1945 | Hale Irwin was born |
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30 | Jul | 1980 | Justin Rose was born |
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29 | Jul | 1963 | Arnold Palmer won the Western Open in a playoff over Jack Nicklaus & Julius Boros |
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27 | Jul | 1993 | Jordan Spieth was born |
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26 | Jul | 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins the LPGA Western Open at Rainer Golf & CC |
25 | Jul | 1971 | Arnold Palmer wins the Westchester Classic wire-to-wire for his 60th PGA win |
25 | Jul | 1997 | Golf legend Ben Hogan died at the age of 84 |
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23 | Jul | 1979 | 67-year-old Sam Snead matched his age twice as he fired rounds of 67 and 66 en-route to a closing total of seven-under-par. |
22 | Jul | 1984 | Seve Ballesteros won the 113th Open Championship in the Old Course of Saint Andrews. |
21 | Jul | 1977 | Paul Casey was born |
21 | Jul | 1979 | Seve Ballestros hits a birdie from the parking lot on the 16th hle, on his way to winning The Open, his first major, at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England |
20 | Jul | 1986 | Greg Norman wins The Open at Turnberry for his 1st major championship |
19 | Jul | 1987 | Nick Faldo wins The Open Championship at Muirfield; par?s 18 holes in a row |
18 | Jul | 1957 | 6 time major winner Sir Nick Faldo is born in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, England |
18 | Jul | 1957 | Nick Faldo was born |
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16 | Jul | 1901 | Willie Anderson won his 1st of four US Opens |
16 | Jul | 1980 | Adam Scott was born |
15 | Jul | 1923 | Bobby Jones wins his 1st major championship at the U.S. Open |
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13 | Jul | 1962 | Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Open Championship in a row by 6 strokes at Royal Troon |
12 | Jul | 1930 | Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open completing the 3rd leg of the ?Grand Slam? |
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8 | Jul | 1986 | Kevin Chappell was born |
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21 | Jan | 1940 | Jack Nicklaus, winner of 18 Golf Majors, more than any other man, was born |
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16 | Jan | 1979 | Jimmy Walker was born |
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9 | Jan | 1980 | Sergio Garcia was born |
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6 | Jan | 1957 | Nancy Lopez was born |
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27 | Feb | 1902 | Gene Sarazen was born |
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25 | Feb | 1992 | Hideki Matsuyama was born |
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23 | Feb | 1967 | Steve Stricker was born |
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22 | Feb | 1963 | Vijay Singh was born |
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15 | Feb | 1984 | Kevin Kisner was born |
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10 | Feb | 1955 | Greg Norman was born |
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6 | Feb | 1870 | James Braid was born |
6 | Feb | 1971 | As the commander of Apollo 14, Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon |
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4 | Feb | 1912 | Byron Nelson was born |
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30 | Dec | 1975 | Tiger Woods was born |
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21 | Dec | 1892 | Walter Hagen was born |
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13 | Dec | 1988 | Rickie Fowler was born |
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9 | Dec | 1949 | Tom Kite was born |
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8 | Dec | 1980 | Brandt Snedeker was born |
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1 | Dec | 1939 | Lee Trevino was born |
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31 | Aug | 1984 | Charl Schwartzel was born |
31 | Aug | 1987 | Curtis Strange sets the money record raking in a total of $697,385 for the season |
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28 | Aug | 1983 | Nick Price wins his 1st PGA Tour title at the WSOG at Firestone CC |
27 | Aug | 1957 | Bernhard Langer was born |
27 | Aug | 1995 | Greg Norman sinks a 66 ft chip shot on the 1st playoff hole to win WSOG |
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23 | Aug | 1929 | Peter Thomson was born |
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20 | Aug | 1967 | Charlie Sifford wins his 1st Official PGA Tour event, the second by an African American player |
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17 | Aug | 1969 | Raymond Floyd wins his 1st major, the PGA Championship over Gary Player by one shot |
16 | Aug | 1999 | Tiger Woods outlasts a 19 year old Sergio Garcia to win the PGA Championship |
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13 | Aug | 1912 | Ben Hogan, one of five men with a career slam, was born in Stephenville, Texas |
13 | Aug | 1989 | Payne Stewart steals the P.G.A. Championship after Mike Reid chokes on the 17th hole |
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11 | Aug | 1974 | Lee Trevino wins the PGA Championship over Jack Nicklaus |
10 | Aug | 1975 | Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th PGA Championship at Firestone Country Club |
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8 | Aug | 1982 | Raymond Floyd wins the PGA Championship wire-to-wire at Southern Hills |
7 | Aug | 2021 | Aditi Ashok finishes 4th in Tokyo Olympics, two strokes behind eventual winner, Nelly Korda of the US |
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6 | Aug | 1972 | Gary Player wins the PGA Championship after an amazing 9 iron on the 16th hole |
5 | Aug | 1990 | Patrick Reed was born |
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29 | Apr | 1993 | Justin Thomas was born |
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26 | Apr | 1982 | J.B. Holmes was born |
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13 | Apr | 1955 | Betsy King was born in Reading, Pennsylvania |
13 | Apr | 1986 | Jack Nicklaus wins his 18th and last Major – the Masters at Augusta – by one stroke |
13 | Apr | 1997 | Tiger Woods wins his first Golf Major – the Augusta Masters – firing in a course record 18 under par, to win by 12 strokes |
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9 | Apr | 1957 | Seve Ballesteros was born |
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7 | Apr | 1935 | Gene Sarazen hits a double eagle on the 15th at August to force a playoff with Craig Wood, which he eventually won |
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5 | Apr | 1976 | Henrik Stenson was born |
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4 | Apr | 1939 | JoAnne Carner, the only woman to have won the U.S. Girls’ Junior, U.S. Women’s Amateur, and U.S. Women’s Open titles, was born in Kirkland, Washington |
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1973 | INDIA WINS NOMURA CUP TO BECOME ASIA-PACIFIC CHAMPIONS. Raj Kumar Pitamber, PG Sethi, Vikramjit Singh and Lakshman Singh combined to win the Nomura Cup at Jakarta, Indonesia |