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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: January 24

World Golf Hall of Fame member Masashi (Jumbo) Ozaki was born on this date in 1947 in the Kaifu District, Tokushima, Japan. He won a record 94 Japan Tour tournaments. Also, some golf history books cite this date in 1764 as the day St. Andrews Golf Club reduced the 22-hole course it originally had for the Old Course to an 18-hole round.

Cliff Schrock