This Day in Golf History: May 14

Pardon the indulgence on this day: Today would have been my father, Donald Schrock's, 94th birthday and on this occasion each year I like to recall the one round of golf we played together, at the Illinois State University Golf Course. The year and round details escape me except for two notes: he took a lot of swings, and on the 150-yard par-3 17th, when he missed a 3-foot putt, he asked me to knock the ball back to him. He kept trying that putt and missing it, and raking it back to keep trying over and over. Eventually, I could hear the guys on the tee, across the pond, say, "Can you believe these guys?!" That's when I told Dad to give it up and we went to play the final hole.