This Day in Golf History: March 6

On this date in 1972, Jack Nicklaus won the rain-delayed Doral-Eastern Open on the Blue Monster Course at Doral by two over Lee Trevino and Bob Rosburg. Jack, then 32, picked up $30,000, which put him at $1,477,200.86 for his career, going ahead of Arnold Palmer’s total of $1,471,226.83. Palmer, 42, did not play at Doral and had been the all-time leader for about a decade.