Golf Central

Things weren’t looking too rosy for the PGA Tour on this day in 1967, when, for the second year on the trot, tour professionals threatened to boycott the PGA Championships unless they were given more control of the Tour. Threaten being the key word here, because, perhaps unsurprisingly, the tournament went ahead. The class of ’67; not a particularly powerful bunch of golfers it seems.

It was on this day in 1935 that a certain Babe Zaharias paid the price for being really bloody good at loads of other sports other than golf. Indeed, Babe's professional activities in other sports such as track and field and basketball saw the golfing powers that be rule her ineligible for amateur events. Not that she really ever had any trouble in professional golf events mind you, winning an impressive 41 LPGA Tour titles in her lifetime.

Bobby Jones: I'll have a Ginsters, a Mars Bar and a Lucozade please mate...

Bobby Jones's résumé was pretty impressive before 1930; the fact that he'd already won nine national championships, three U.S. Opens, four U.S. Amateur titles and two British Opens  ensured he'd no doubt go down as one of the game's greats. Coming into the 1930 season, however, Jones set his sights on golf's holy grail: The Grand Slam. And it was on this day in 1930 that Jones indeed set the ball in motion for golf's greatest achievement by beating Cyrill Trolley (great name) in the fourth round of the British Amateur at St.Andrews. After Tolley had missed a crucial 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th, Jones then preceded to craftily lay a stymie in his opponent's path in the playoff, winning the match 1 up. Jones went on to win the British Amateur, the first leg of his monumental achievement, the other three tournament victories coming at the British Open, U.S Open and U.S Amateur.