This Day in Golf History--December 19

On this date in 1993, Larry Mize won the Johnnie Walker World Championship of Golf in demonstrative fashion, winning by 10 shots over Fred Couples. Marino Parascenzo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began his final-day game story from Montego Bay, Jamaica, with this: “Larry Mize just flat killed the Johnnie Walker World Championship of Golf yesterday. He shot a closing 65 for a staggering 18-under-par 266. That gave him a 10-stroke victory over Fred Couples and his futile dynamite finish, a nine-birdie 64. Mize, with this third win of the year, won $550,000 out of the $2.7 million purse, the biggest payday of his life, and it put him over $1.3 million for the year.”