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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: June 1

Today brings a baseball-golf hybrid item. On this date in 1925, in a day game against the Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium, the great Iron Horse of baseball, Lou Gehrig, began his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played . Gehrig made an out in pinch-hitting for shortstop Paul (Pee Wee) Wanninger, then started the next game at first base, replacing Wally Pipp, who was in a batting slump. Just 10,000 saw Gehrig’s streak start and the Yankees lose, 5-3. The game only took 1 hour 50 minutes. A golf equivalent to Gehrig’s streak is Tiger Woods’ record of 141 consecutive events without missing the cut, which went from February 1998 to May 2005.

Cliff Schrock