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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--April 25

One of the most diminutive major championship winners in history, Jerry Barber, was born on this date in 1916 in Woodson, Illinois, west of Springfield. Barber was 5-5, 137 pounds, and won the 1961 PGA Championship in a playoff over Don January.

Cliff Schrock