This Day in Golf History: January 30

Two World Golf Hall of Fame members were born on this date two years apart: Curtis Strange, a two-time U.S. Open winner, in 1955, and Payne Stewart in 1957. Stewart also won two U.S. Opens and a PGA and notably passed away tragically in 1999 in a jet crash. On this date in 1965, at its 71st annual meeting, in New York, the USGA approved changing the U.S. Open format to four daily 18-hole rounds instead of two days of 18 holes and a final day of 36.