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: May 4

Among the birthday milestones today: 1986 PGA champion Bob Tway was born in 1959; the second African-American on the LPGA Tour Renee Powell was born in 1946. She was also named one of the first seven women to be members of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club. And World Golf Hall of Fame member Betsy Rawls was born in 1928. She won 55 LPGA Tour events, including four U.S. Women’s Opens (1951, 1953, 1957, 1960), and two LPGA Championships in 1959 and 1969.

Cliff Schrock