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 7

Steve Jones, who had a brief but successful time on the PGA Tour, that included winning the 1996 U.S. Open, won the Canadian Open on this date in 1997 with a score of 275. And Louise Suggs, an LPGA Tour cofounder and ultra-tough competitor, was born on this date in 1923 in Lithia Springs, Georgia. Winner of 11 majors, Suggs is in the World Golf Hall of Fame and won the 2007 Bob Jones Award, named in honor of a fellow Georgian.

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