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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 6

The World Golf Hall of Fame member Cary Middlecoff was born on this date in 1921 in Halls, Tennessee. A Masters and U.S. Open champion, “Doc” was a notoriously slow player who tested everyone’s patience, but he was a bright man about the game and utilized his knowledge as a TV commentator and as a Golf Digest Instruction Panelist.

Cliff Schrock