This Day in Golf History: May 31

It was an Army-Navy battle on this day in 1942 at the PGA Championship played at Seaview Country Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sam Snead, who was going to report to the Navy, defeated Jim Turnesa, an Army corporal, 2 and 1, in the final. It was the first of three PGA titles for Snead, who had lost two of the previous four final matches.