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: July 22

Seve Ballesteros memorably ended Tom Watson's bid to win a third straight Open Championship on this date in 1984 when he birdied the 18th at the Old Course while Watson was making bogey on No. 17. It would have been Watson's sixth Open, to tie him with Harry Vardon for the most all-time. With a normal Watson putting round, he would have won that championship, but he struggled on the greens early on and couldn't get going with the putter, shooting a 73. Ballesteros posted 12-under 276, two ahead of Watson and Bernhard Langer.

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