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: April 20

An incredible talent who never got to show the record he could have accumulated, Young Tom Morris was born on this date in 1851. He won four Open Championships, including three in a row to retire the champion’s belt, and then died at just 24 in St. Andrews, Scotland. Also on this date in 1969, Kathy Whitworth, the all-time LPGA Tour leader in victories with 88 and the leader in most career seasons with a victory with 22, is tied with three others for the most consecutive wins in scheduled events with four. Whitworth’s fourth came on April 20, 1969, in the Lady Carling Open.

Cliff Schrock