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On this day in 1990 England's Nick Faldo became the first back-to-back winner of the Masters since Jack Nicklaus in 1965-66 when he overcame Raymond Floyd in a playoff for the second of his three Green Jackets. Faldo had fired rounds of 66 and 69 to reach the playoff, and when Floyd hit into the water near the 11th green on the second extra hole, the title was Nick's again. He had beaten Scott Hoch the previous year on the same hole ...

And in 1967, Augusta was astonished as 54-year-old Ben Hogan peeled away the years and tied a Masters record with a 30 on the back nine. Hogan's third-round 66 left him only two shots off the lead in his final visit to Augusta. It was 16 years to the day since Hogan had claimed his first Masters title with a bogey-free 68 to beat Skee Riegel by two ...

There's a real world outside of golf, on this day in 1513 the explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed the territory of Florida for Spain, in what was a very early version of the "Florida Swing". Things got really testy by 1670, when the Spaniards were fighting English settlers for control of neighbouring Georgia, and we all know who won that one: Otherwise, Augusta National might just be the site of the Turespaña Masters.

And strangely enough, on this day in '86 golf-loving bad-ass Clint Eastwood was named the mayor of Carmel, California. He served for only one term, but Clint became a regular at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and in 1999 bought the famed seaside golf links along with Arnold Palmer and Peter Ueberroth ... and in 1994, iconic Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain was found dead having committed suicide and baggy jean & cardigan-wearing grunge fans across the globe weep.

So it's Gordon Sherry! as they exclaimed with joy in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1974, to the 6-foot-8 ginger '95 British Amateur Champ; to Western world punk grandma designer Vivienne Westwood (67); born-again former Bo Duke actor John Schneider (48); love of Forrest Gump’s life Robin Wright Penn (42); and cage fighter Patricia Arquette (40) ... 'Til tomorrow!