On this date in 1995, the Canadian du Maurier Classic was won by Jenny Lidback at Beaconsfield Golf Club in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, with an eight-under-par total of 280. She won by one over Liselotte Neumann of Sweden. Brooke Henderson was another Canadian who won her native country's CP Women's Open, by four shots in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,, in 2018.

Marlene Hagge shot 284 at Lakewood Country Club to win the Denver Open on this date of the fourth round in 1956. She took home $800 for first; Fay Crocker was second , six shots behind.

This is the latest the PGA Championship finished in the month of August. The 1946 playing ended on this date with Ben Hogan winning the title, 6&4, over Ed (Porky) Oliver. This was Hogan's first of two PGAs he won. The championship was held at Portland (Ore.) Golf Club. This PGA was also notable for it being the last time Byron Nelson played in the major. He lost to Oliver in the quarterfinals and overall had a 37-8 record.

Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett won the U.S. Amateur this past Sunday at Pebble Beach. On this date in 1997, Matt Kuchar won the U.S. Amateur, defeating Joel Kribel, 2 & 1, in the 36-hole final at Cog Hill's Dubsdread course in Lemont, III. Kuchar, 19 at the time, was from Lake Mary, Fla., and a golf team member at Georgia Tech. He was playing in the U.S. Amateur for the first time.

Beth Daniel won the World Championship of Women's Golf on this date in 1981, at Shaker Heights (Ohio) Country Club. She went home with the $50,000 first-place prize money.

Two influential names in women’s golf history shared the stage on this date in 1976. Kathy Whitworth won the Patty Berg Classic at Keller Golf Course in St. Paul, Minnesota. Whitworth shot a seven-under-par score of 212 to win by two shots over Sandra Post. First prize was $8,000.

The third PGA Championship ended on this date in 1920. Jock Hutchison--who golf writers forever have to fight copy editors that they don't change his name to Hutchinson--defeated Douglas Edgar, 1-up, at Flossmoor Country Club in Chicago in the 36-hole final.

The 1944 PGA ended on this date, with Bob Hamilton a surprise 1-up winner over Byron Nelson in the final at Manito Golf & Country Club in Spokane, Washington. The much more heralded Nelson could not get the edge on Hamilton; the two finished the first 18 holes tied. Nelson would win the following year, 4&3, versus Sam Byrd.

At age 44, Lee Trevino showed he could still win a major when he held off Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins on this date in 1984 at Shoal Creek to win the PGA Championship. Trevino shot 69 in the final round and finished 15 under par. The victory was his sixth and final major and came 10 years after he'd won his first PGA.

The PGA Championship ended on this date in 2002 as a moment for the Everyman in all of us. Unheralded Rich Beem shot 278 to edge Tiger Woods by one shot at Hazeltine National. Beem could have faltered many times in the final round as Woods came charging at him with a 67, but he had a 68 of his own and won his first and only major.

One of the memorable conclusions to a PGA Championship was on this date in 1997. Davis Love III won his lone major, holing out on the final hole for a five-shot victory at Winged Foot West. The son of a PGA professional and renowned teacher, Davis Love Jr., Love III finished just as a rainbow appeared in the sky, a heavenly confirmation of a popular victory.

Dave Stockton won the PGA on this date in 1970, and it marked the last good chance Arnold Palmer had of winning the only major he didn't win. Stockton finished two shots ahead of Palmer and Bob Murphy with a winning score of just one-under-par 279 at Southern Hills in Tulsa. Stockton shot 73 in the last round to hang on as Murphy shot 66 and Arnie 70.

The earliest year the PGA Championship ended on an August 15 took place in 1965. Dave Marr won by two shots over Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus at Laurel Valley in western Pennsylvania. Because this was in Palmer country at the height of his power, many thought this was his year to finally finish off the career Grand Slam. Instead he tied for 33rd and never once broke par in four rounds.

One of the years the PGA Championship ended on an August 14 was in 1977, and it had a memorable element to it. Young tour gunslinger Lanny Wadkins, 27, and venerable cancer survivor Gene Littler tied at six-under-par 282 at Pebble Beach at the end of regulation. The PGA had gone to sudden death that year, the first major to do so. Littler was by far the sentimental hope, having led from the start, but he ballooned to 76 in Round 4. Wadkins made a six-foot par putt on the third extra hole to win the playoff.

On this date the PGA Championship was won by Justin Thomas in 2017 at Quail Hollow, by Steve Elkington in 1995 at Riviera, Payne Stewart won in 1989 at Kemper Lakes, and Gene Sarazen won in 1933 at Blue Mound.

August 12 has many special occurrences in the 104 playings of the PGA Championship. It was the first day of the event in 1922 (won by Gene Sarazen), 1965 (Dave Marr), 1976 (Dave Stockton), 1993 (Paul Azinger), 1999 (Tiger Woods), 2004 (Vijay Singh), and 2010 (Martin Kaymer). August 12 was the final day in 1973 (when Jack Nicklaus won a record-breaking 14th major), 1990 (Wayne Grady), 2007 (Woods) and 2012 (Rory McIlroy). For the foreseeable future, Brooks Koepka’s August 12 victory in 2018 will be the last time the PGA ends on an August 12 now that the championship has been moved to May.

The 2013, 1996, 1991, 1985 and 1974 PGA Championships all ended on August 11 of their year, won by, in order, Jason Dufner, Mark Brooks, John Daly, Hubert Green and Lee Trevino. Of the five, Daly was the most obscure and unexpected, only getting into the field at the last moment and completely shocking the golf world with his prodigious drives and composure.

The 1975 PGA ended on this date at a very familiar PGA Tour site, Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Jack Nicklaus won at four-under 276, two strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton. It was Nicklaus' fourth of five PGA victories.

The 104th playing of the PGA Championship was held in May in Southern Hills in Tulsa. The first time in its history that the PGA began on an August 9 was in 1973 at another Midwest spot, Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland. It ended in a milestone result: Jack Nicklaus won by four shots, and it was his 14th major, moving him ahead of Bobby Jones' total, which had been the record for 43 years.

In the 104 playings of the PGA Championship, the PGA of America's showcase event began on this date, August 8, six times: 1933, 1974, 1985, 1991, 1996 and 2013. But it ended on this date just once: in 1982 when Raymond Floyd won by three at Southern Hills.