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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--March 20

On this date in 1937, Harry Vardon, the only six-time winner of the Open Championship, was born on Jersey of the Channel Islands. He also won the 1900 U.S. Open. He died in 1937 of a tuberculosis-type disease, age 66. Of his many legacies is the Vardon Grip, aka overlap grip.

Cliff Schrock