This Day in Golf History: July 12

Salem (Mass.) Country Club, the Donald Ross-designed course, has had several national championships, the first being the 1932 U.S. Women's Amateur. Others include the 1954 and 1984 U.S. Women's Opens, 1977 Men's Senior Amateur, and the 2001 and 2017 Men's Senior Open. The '84 Women's Open began on July 12 and I recall attending the championship on the weekend with my wife. We had moved to the East Coast earlier in the year to work for Golf Digest, and in June had watched the men play the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. It was quite the introduction to National Open golf. Of historic events on today’s date…Mickey Wright won her fourth U.S. Women’s Open in 1964…in 1930, Bobby Jones won a record-tying fourth U.S. Open, at Interlachen, two strokes ahead of Macdonald Smith. This was part of Jones’ epic Grand Slam season. Also on this date, Tony Jacklin won the 1969 Open and Jack Nicklaus the 1970 Open.