This Day in Golf History: November 22

On this date in 1936, the 19th PGA Championship concluded at Pinehurst Country Club with Denny Shute winning his first of two straight PGAs. He defeated Jimmy Thomson in the final, 3 and 2. Also, on this 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death, this archivist is reminded that Arnold Palmer was supposed to have played golf earlier in the year in 1963 with JFK but the president’s bad back postponed the game to a later time, never to be played out.