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 9

On this date in 1984, Australian great Peter Thomson won the PGA Seniors' Championship at PGA National Golf Club’s Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He won by three strokes over Don January. The defending champion Arnold Palmer tied for 11th. And on this date in 1926, it is usually recognized as the date the U.S. Golf Association legalized the use of steel in golf club shafts. Hickory was the primary shaft material for many years leading up to the use of steel. Once steel became the common shaft, aluminum, graphite and other hi-tech materials expanded the shaft market.

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