This Day in Golf History: January 23

On this date in 1977, Tom Watson shot 71 at Pebble Beach to edge Tony Jacklin by a shot to win the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and $40,000 first-place money. Watson overall was 15 under par on Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula C.C. And Yani Tseng was born on this date in 1989 in Taiwan. No one’s light burned as bright as hers early on. She was the youngest to win five majors, in July 2011, at age 22 and a half. In March 2012 she won her 15th LPGA Tour event but she hasn’t won one since.