This Day in Golf History: May 13

Arnold Palmer's final PGA Tour victory was the 1973 Bob Hope Classic at age 43, so by the end of the 1980s he was not having great success in his late 50s. He still had the Byron Nelson Classic on his schedule because of his love for Lord Byron. At the 1988 GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Arnie shot 70 in the first round but on May 13 had a 75 in Round 2 and had to withdraw with a rib-cage muscle pull. It was the last time he played the Nelson Classic. Also on this date, in 1962, Mickey Wright won the LPGA Western Open on Montgomery Country Club after a four-hole playoff with Mary Lena Faulk.