Cliff Schrock
GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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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: August 17

A few PGA Championships ended on this date, including in 1969 when Raymond Floyd won at NCR Country Club’s South Course in Dayton, Ohio.  Floyd shot eight-under 276 to win by one shot over Gary Player of South Africa, who infamously had to deal with apartheid protestors.

Cliff Schrock