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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--June 3

The hall-of-fame golfer Hale Irwin was born on this date in 1945 in Joplin, Missouri. Irwin was known for playing hard golf courses well, and won the U.S. Open in 1974, 1979 and 1990, plus the U.S. Senior Open in 1998 and 2000.

Cliff Schrock