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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 5

One-time major champion Lanny Wadkins was born on this date in 1949 in Richmond, Virginia. Wadkins won the 1977 PGA in the first sudden-death playoff in championship history, beating Gene Littler at Pebble Beach.

Cliff Schrock