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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: July 18

Louis Oosthuizen hoped to win The Open today, 11 years after he won on this date at St. Andrews by seven shots. But also on this date in 1982, Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, by one shot over a faltering Nick Price and Peter Oosterhuis, at Royal Troon.

Cliff Schrock