This Day in Golf History: May 20

It’s PGA Championship week but in its now familiar May spot rather than its long-held August spot. So let’s stay on that theme and observe an Open Championship historical note in May since we are used to the Open being played in July. But in 1897, the Open was played on May 19 and 20, 36 holes each day, with amateur Harold Hilton winning, at Hoylake in England, for his second victory, this time by a stroke over James Braid.