This Day in Golf History--August 6

Tom Watson had his closest chance of winning the PGA Championship on this date in 1978 at historic Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania. He led by five shots with one round to go, but a double-bogey 6 on the 10th hole, the result of his drive going in a divot hole, began the erosion of his lead and he would go on to shoot 73 and lose a sudden-death playoff on the second hole to John Mahaffey. Jerry Pate was also in the playoff.