This Day in Golf History: February 5

By this date in 1966, Arnold Palmer had already been in 18 playoffs on the PGA Tour. On this date, Palmer shot his best score of the Bob Hope Desert Classic that year, a 67, in the fourth round, then lost a playoff the next day when he and Doug Sanders tied at 349. Sanders won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff, dropping Arnie to an 11-8 won-loss record. Also on this date, World Golf Hall of Famer José María Olazábal, who won the 1994 and 1999 Masters, was born in 1966 in Hondarribia, Spain.