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: August 14

One of the years the PGA Championship ended on an August 14 was in 1977, and it had a memorable element to it. Young tour gunslinger Lanny Wadkins, 27, and venerable cancer survivor Gene Littler tied at six-under-par 282 at Pebble Beach at the end of regulation. The PGA had gone to sudden death that year, the first major to do so. Littler was by far the sentimental hope, having led from the start, but he ballooned to 76 in Round 4. Wadkins made a six-foot par putt on the third extra hole to win the playoff. On this date in 2016, 112 years after the last time golf was competed in the Olympics, Justin Rose of Great Britain shot a score of 16 under par to win the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, two ahead of Henrik Stenson. Getting the bronze medal was American Matt Kuchar.

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