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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: February 28

On this date in 1971, the greatest player of all time, Jack Nicklaus, won the 53rd PGA Championship—at PGA National, where the Honda Classic finished this past weekend—and it made him the first golfer to win the career Grand Slam twice of the Masters, U.S. Open, Open Ch., and PGA.

Cliff Schrock