This Day in Golf History: December 23

Herman Barron, who won the PGA Senior Championship in its quiet pre-Senior Tour days in 1963, was born on this date in 1909 in Port Chester, New York. His other “claim to fame” was winning the 1942 Western Open and thereby becoming the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour event. He won four tour events in all and had top-10 finishes in the U.S. Open and PGA. Barron was a member of the 1947 Ryder Cup team for the U.S. Also born on this date, in 1946, former Golf Digest Schools instructor and former CBS golf announcer Peter Kostis.