Golf Central

On this day in 1994, Aussie Steve Elkington finished at a 16-under-par score of 200 to win The Buick Southern Open by five strokes over Steve Rintoul. Wagga Wagga’s principal golfing talent has won 10 PGA Tour events and defeated none other than Colin Montgomerie to win the 1995 PGA Championship – the sole Major title to his name.

On this day in 1968 a woman gave birth to the first recorded sextuplets in Britain. At odds of three thousand million to one, it would have given bookmakers a right headache had Barry and Sheila Thorns not undergone fertility treatment, the tinkers.

Meanwhile, it’s Maogmang Pagkamundag! as they say in The Philippines to Yank golfer John Cook (b.1957), ice hockey legend Glenn Anderson (b.1960), Gordon Sumner, better known as the man who decided to call himself Sting (b.1951) and good footballer but annoying pundit Trevor Brooking (b.1948).