This Day in Golf History: March 21

Following up to last weekend’s Players Championship, the first Players held at the TPC Stadium Course concluded on March 21, 1982. Jerry Pate won by two shots with a final-round, five-under-par 67 and then christened the event during the award ceremony by tossing both PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman and course architect Pete Dye into the lake alongside the 18th hole and jumping in himself.