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: September 5

The 1982 U.S. Men's Amateur Championship was won by Jay Sigel on this date at The Country Club when he handily won, 8 & 7, over David Tolley. This ties in with the Day in Golf note for yesterday September 4. On this date in 1925, the great amateur Bobby Jones, President in Perpetuity of Augusta National Golf Club, won the 29th playing of the U.S. Amateur, beating Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, at Oakmont for his second title.

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