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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 27

Gene Sarazen was born on this date in 1902, a little less than a month from when Bobby Jones was born on St. Patrick's Day 1902. Sarazen, known as the Squire, and the first player to win the career Grand Slam, lived into the Tiger Woods years and died on May 13, 1999, age 97.

Cliff Schrock