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: November 1

Today’s space is devoted entirely to nine-time major champion Gary Player, who was born on this date in 1935 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Player, the fitness-minded third of the Big Three of him, Palmer and Nicklaus, undoubtedly set a record for most miles flown in his career.

Cliff Schrock