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: December 6

On this date in 1981, the 43rd Senior PGA Ch. ended at Turnberry Isle’s South Course, with defending champion Arnold Palmer finishing second to Miller Barber by two strokes. Arnie was always in Barber’s rear-view mirror in this oldest of the senior majors. Palmer trailed by five with a round to go and got within two at the end when his 70 bettered Barber’s 73, but he still finished solo runner-up. Barber was using veteran caddie Angelo Argea for the week after he had split with Jack Nicklaus. On this date in 1987, Jane Crafter and Steve Jones won the JCPenney Golf Classic at Bardmoor Country Club in Largo, Florida, with a score of 20 under par, two ahead of Debbie Massey and Mark McCumber.

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