This Day in Golf History: June 9
Lawson Little won the U.S. Open on this date in 1940 in a playoff with sentimental favorite Gene Sarazen at Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland. Little shot 70 in the playoff to Sarazen’s 73.
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Lawson Little won the U.S. Open on this date in 1940 in a playoff with sentimental favorite Gene Sarazen at Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland. Little shot 70 in the playoff to Sarazen’s 73.