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: January 23

On this date in 1977, Tom Watson shot 71 at Pebble Beach to edge Tony Jacklin by a shot to win the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and $40,000 first-place money. Watson overall was 15 under par on Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula CC.

Cliff Schrock