This Day in Golf History: May 14

On this date in 1995, Kelly Robbins won the only major of her career at DuPont Country Club in the LPGA Championship. She held on by one shot over Laura Davies. And pardon the indulgence on this day: Today would have been my father, Donald Schrock's, 96th birthday and on this occasion each year I like to recall the one round of golf we played together, at the Illinois State University Golf Course. The year and score details escape me except for two notes: he took a lot of swings, and on the 150-yard par-3 17th, when he missed a 3-foot putt, he asked me to knock the ball back to him. He kept trying that putt and missing it, and raking it back to keep trying over and over. Eventually, I could hear the voices of the guys on the tee travel across a pond, "Can you believe these guys?!" That's when I told Dad to give it up and we went to play the final hole.