This Day in Golf History: March 21

The first Players Championship held at the TPC Stadium Course concluded on March 21, 1982. Jerry Pate won by two shots with a final-round, five-under-par 67 and then christened the event during the award ceremony by tossing both Commissioner Deane Beman and course architect Pete Dye into the lake alongside the 18th hole and jumping in himself. The finish of holes 16, 17 and 18 with water all around has become a mesmerizing classic to watch each year.