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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: February 13

104 years ago on this date, one of the greatest golfers, and one of the game's greatest ambassadors, was born in Minneapolis. Patty Berg, who played football in her neighborhood growing up, became a golf superstar and was a popular draw in the early days of the LPGA Tour. She had a great catchphrase at her clinics, which I first saw in the 1980s at Bloomington Country Club in Illinois; she always reminded attendees to "swing to the finish," which she would then do in a flourish.

Cliff Schrock