This Day in Golf History: September 8

On this date in 1968, in Eugene, Oregon, Sandra Haynie, 25, bogeyed two of her last three holes but still won the $12,500 Pacific Ladies' Classic by three strokes. The Fort Worth, Texas, golfer won $1,875. She finished 54 holes at 213, three-under-par on the 6,361-yard, par-72 Eugene Country Club. She hadn't won since the September 1967 Mickey Wright Invitational in Bonsall, Calif. Sandra Palmer and Kathy Cornelius tied for second.