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It was on this day in 1975, aged 51 years, 7 months, and 10 days old, that the late Art Wall Jr. beat Gary McCord by one stroke to win the Greater Milwaukee Open. Wall, who won the 1959 Masters, became the second-oldest player ever to win a PGA Tour event. This would be Wall's 14th and final PGA Tour victory.

Five years earlier in 1970, Donna Caponi struggled with a final-round 77, but still managed to win the Women's US Open at Muskogee CC, Oklahoma, seeing off Sandra Haynie and Sandra Spuzich by one stroke. Caponi actually held a 54 hole record score of 210, and became only the second player after Mickey Wright to defend the Championship successfully. 

On a good day for fishermen and people without tastebuds, today in 1937, Spam was launched. InGolfWeTrust still remembers Spam sandwiches in the back of a Ford Cortina on the way to Butlins in Minehead, and we're still angry.

Austin, Minnesota is known as Spam Town as it produces all US Spam (imagine the stench), and 2002 saw the six millionth can sold. Apparently, it is so popular that it is given as a gift more often than chocolate. Poppycock.

Had she not passed away in 1963, three-time US Women's Amateur champion, Beatrix Hoyt, would have been 118 years old. As it is, we cry Grattis pŒ fšdelsedagen as they do in Sweden to Edie 'Carmen Soprano' Falco (45), fat rapper Bizarre (32), over-priced, self-important fashion designer Paul Smith (65), and musical criminal Huey Lewis (58).