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 5

On this date in 1956, amateur Ken Venturi led Round 1 of the Masters with a 66, but by Sunday he had lost his form and shot 80 to lose to Jack Burke, Jr., by one stroke. Also on this date in 1976, former Open Championship winner Henrik Stenson, the entertaining and intense competitor, was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. His main triumph was a sensational duel with Phil Mickelson to win the 2016 Open at Troon, Scotland.

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