I played a lot of amateur golf in my formative years long before the initial days of the Lake County Amateur Golf Circuit in 1994. As a kid I used to tee it up in the Chicago Amateur, a colorful event first contested at Jackson Park Golf Course in 1904.
June 13 1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in 8th round at Neuilly Bowling Palace, Paris to retain world heavyweight boxing title. 1913 James Rowe, who had won back-to-back Belmont Stake races in 1872-73 as a jockey, sets the record for the most number of Belmont Stakes wins by a trainer, eight, when he sends Prince Eugene to victory.
World number one Jon Rahm was among the trailing hopefuls battling under intense rain showers early in Saturday's third round of the PGA Championship at soggy Oak Hill.
Miller Barber was no one s ideal of a professional golfer. An East Texan with a twang and a folksy manner, he was pudgy, suffered from hay fever and wore large prescription dark glasses that gave him a somewhat mysterious look.
WILMINGTON — Sheldon Scherer passed away on January 12, 2023. He was one of a kind. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on April 10, 1941, to parents Joseph and…