This Day in Golf History--July 3

Two major events took place on this date in the 1950s. In 1954, Babe Didrikson Zaharias won the U.S. Women’s Open at Salem Country Club in Peabody, Massachusetts, by a record 12 shots, 18 months after having colon cancer surgery. And in 1959, Gary Player won his first major championship, at age 23, winning the Open Championship at Muirfield by two strokes over Fred Bullock and Flory Van Donck.