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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 U.S. Open History: June 20

Tom Watson had good and bad results on this date in the U.S. Open in back-to-back years. In 1982 at Pebble Beach, he chipped in on No. 17 for a birdie and birdied the final hole as well to beat Jack Nicklaus by two shots. But in 1983, in a rain-delayed finish, Larry Nelson edged him by one shot due to holing a 40-foot putt on No. 16 at Oakmont.

Cliff Schrock