This Day in Golf History: March 29

On this date in 1992, Davis Love III, who had just suffered a devastating fire at his home on St. Simons Island, Georgia,  won the Players Championship by four strokes ahead of four players in second. Also on this date in ’92 at the Nabisco Dinah Shore, Dottie Pepper (Mochrie at the time), then 26, birdied the 18th hole to tie Juli Inkster, and then won on the first hole of sudden-death playoff, No. 10, with a par-4 to Inkster’s bogey. Play was on the Mission Hills course in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Pepper, who had been runner-up in 1991, also won the tournament in 1999 when she set a tournament record of 19-under 269. The Dinah Shore is now called the Chevron Championship and will be played this year on April 18-21 at The Woodlands, Texas.