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: October 19

One of golf’s obscure “one major winners” was born on this date in 1910. Vic Ghezzi, the PGA Championship winner in 1941 in a 38-hole battle with Byron Nelson, was born in Rumson, New Jersey, and won 11 PGA Tour events. And on this date in 1975, Shelley Hamlin won the LPGA Japan Golf Classic in Tokyo by one stroke over Hollis Stacy. The anniversary of Hamlin’s passing was on October 15. She died in 2018 at age 69.

Cliff Schrock