Let’s appearance returned in records at this week in golfing from March eleven-18. Information courtesy Golf Channel Research unit. March 12, 1978: Tom Weiskopf wins the Doral Open using 1, preserving off a charging Jack Nicklaus whose very last-spherical sixty-five blanketed three hole-outs. March thirteen, 1960: Arnold Palmer one-putts nine of his remaining ten holes and birdies 17 and 18 to win the Pensacola Open through one. March 14, 1971: Arnold Palmer defeats Julius Boros by using one stroke to win the Florida Citrus Invitational at Rio Pinar CC. The event would flow to Bay Hill in 1979 and changed into renamed for Palmer in 2007. March 14, 2017: The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which owns Muirfield, votes to permit lady members, authorising the course to go back to the Open rota. March 15, 1987: Payne Stewart wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational and donates his $108,000 winner’s check to charity. March 16, 1878: Royal Troon Golf Club is founded in Scotland. It has hosted 9 Opens, maximum currently in 2016. March sixteen, 1988: While looking to qualify for the LPGA Tour’s Standard Register Turquoise Classic, Mary Bea Porter-King hops a fence and saves the life of a drowning boy at home adjoining to the thirteenth fairway at Moon Valley Country Club. March sixteen, 2001: Annika Sorenstam becomes the first player in LPGA Tour records to shoot 59, doing so within the second spherical of the Standard Register PING.
March 17, 1977: The first edition of The Players to be held in Ponte Vedra Beach begins at Sawgrass Country Club…Mike McCullough shot a 66 for a -stroke lead after the opening round. March 18, 1982: The first edition of The Players to be held at TPC Sawgrass starts offevolved…George Burns, Lyn Lott, and Larry Nelson proportion the first-round lead with beginning 67s.
