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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--August 18

On this date in 2002, one of the biggest upsets in major championship history took place at Hazeltine National when Rich Beem nipped Tiger Woods by one shot in the PGA Championship. Also on this date, in 1946, the Golf Writers Association of America was begun.

Cliff Schrock