Cliff Schrock
GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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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: March 22

Winter-weary golfers rejoice: Spring temps have to be showing up soon. Today's anecdote celebrates that annual golf rite of spring, the Masters. On March 22, 1934, eventual winner Horton Smith was a coleader with 70 after the first round of the inaugural Masters, then called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament. Tournament and course creator and huge fan favorite Bobby Jones shot 76.

Cliff Schrock