This Day in Golf History: January 29

On this date in 1978, “Big Momma” Joanne Carner won the Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Championship to start the LPGA schedule that year. Carner took first over Sandra Palmer at Mission Hills C.C. in Palm Springs, Calif. And when he died on January 19, 2024, at age 100, Jack Burke, Jr., was the oldest living major golf champion. He was born on this date in 1923 in Fort Worth, Texas. Burke, cofounder of Champions Golf Club in Houston with Jimmy Demaret, and winner of the Masters and PGA in 1956.