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 2

The 1876 Open Golf Championship, held at St Andrews, was played on this date, with Bob Martin ruled the champion golfer when fellow Scotsman Davie Strath refused to take part in a playoff after the two of them finished with a 176 total. The entire affair is worth reading more in detail from a golf history book. Strath decided against playing the playoff because of a dispute with the Royal & Ancient.

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