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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in Golf History--December 26

For a second straight day, the history note is a golfer’s passing. On this date in 1916 , Scotsman Willie Smith, the winner of the 1899 U.S. Open, died at age 40 of pneumonia in Mexico City.

Cliff Schrock