This Day in Golf History: September 3

Billy Casper, the odd-man out of the Big Three of Palmer, Nicklaus and Player, won his 50th PGA Tour victory on this date in 1973 at age 42. He finished at 20-under-par 264 to beat Australian Bruce Devlin by one stroke to win the Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open in Wethersfield, Connecticut. When he finished on the 18th green, a group of people 30,000 strong surrounded it as he celebrated his fourth victory in the tournament. Casper’s final round was a 64. He made a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 17 to pull ahead and hold off Devlin.