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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: December 14

On this date in 1980, Nancy Lopez and Curtis Strange won the JCPenney Golf Classic by two shots at Bardmoor Country Club in Largo, Florida. They split a $72,000 first prize. And the 1931 U.S. Open champion, Billy Burke, was born on this date in 1902 in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

Cliff Schrock