This Day in Golf History: May 3

On this date in 1964, Pete Brown won the Waco Turner Open in Burneyville, Oklahoma, one of the first African-American victories of a PGA Tour event. Also on this date in 1903, Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Washington. He made the celebrity pro-am famous, at his Monterey Peninsula “clambake,” and his ambassadorship as a golf promoter earned him a spot in the World Golf Hall of Fame.