This Day in Golf History: December 11

The first PGA National Four-Ball Championship ended on this date at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with Gay Brewer and Butch Baird winning by three with a 259 total. Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, who would come to dominate this event, tied for seventh, seven strokes back. And on this date in 2009, Tiger Woods announced that the extramarital affairs he’d had that had caused a Thanksgiving-time fallout with his wife Elin was forcing him to take an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage. Woods said, "I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person." Woods and his wife had been married five years and at the time had a 2-year-old daughter and a 10-month-old son.