This Day in Masters History: April 15

In what was a disappointment to traditionalists, the Masters, in its 43rd playing, had its first sudden-death playoff on this date in 1979. Fuzzy Zoeller won a two-hole playoff, making a birdie on the difficult 11th hole, beating Ed Sneed and Tom Watson. Away from Augusta on this date, the greatest women's golfer of all-time, Mickey Wright, won her 82nd and final LPGA Tour event on this date in 1973, and it was a key one: The Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle, now known as the Chevron Championship (before that it was the ANA Inspiration). At the time, the Dinah Shore wasn't considered a major; that status would come in 1983.