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August 13, 2012: Golf on this day….

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On this day….

1920 – Ted Ray wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Inverness; first-place money – NA.
1933 – Gene Sarazen wins (PGA Tour major) PGA Championship at Blue Mound; first-place money – NA.prize
1950 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tour World Championship; first-place prize money – $4,025.
1961 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open; first-place prize money – NA.
1972 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Tour Pabst Ladies Classic; first-place prize money – $4,500.
1972 – Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Tour Westchester Classic; first-place prize money – $50,000.
1978 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Tour WUI Classic; first-place prize money – $15,000.
1978 – John Mahaffey wins PGA Tour American Optical Classic; first-place prize money – $45,000.
1989 – Payne Stewart wins PGA Tour major PGA Championship; first-place prize money – $200,000.
1995 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Tour PING Welch’s Championship; first-place prize money – $67,500.
1995 – Steve Elkington wins PGA Tour major PGA Championship at Riviera; first-place prize money – $360,000.

1995 – Raymond Floyd wins Senior PGA Tour Burnet Senior Classic; first-place prize money – $165,000.
2000 – Meg Mallon wins LPGA Tour major du Maurier Classic; first-place prize money – $180,000.
2000 – Rocco Mediate wins PGA Tour Buick Open; first-place prize money – $486,000.

2000 – Tom Jenkins wins Senior PGA Tour AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship; first-place prize prize money – $217,500.

2006 – Cristie Kerr wins LPGA Tour CN Canadian Women’s Open; first-place prize money – $255,000.
2006 – Dean Wilson wins PGA Tour The International; first-place prize money – &990,000.

Birthdays….

Tommy Gainey (37) of Bishopville, South Carolina; PGA Tour member; finished second at PGA Tour 2008 Children’s Miracle Network Classic.
Lisa Kiggens (40) of Salinas, California; retired LPGA Tour member; won 1994 Rochester International.
David Feherty (54) of Bangor, Northern Ireland; PGA Tour member; career-best PGA Tour finish was second at 1994 New England Classic; CBS Sports full-time on-course TV commentator.
Betsy King (57) of Reading, Pennsylvania; LPGA Tour member; 34-time winner on LPGA Tour, including six majors and among 1989 and 1990 U.S. Women’s Opens; inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.



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