On this day….
1961 – Gene Littler wins (PGA Tour major) U.S. Open at Oakland Hills CC; first-place prize money – NA.
1962 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Tour Cosmopolitan Open; first-place prize money – $1,200.
1962 – Jack Nicklaus wins (PGA Tour major) U.S. Open at Oakmont CC; first-place prize money – $17,500.
1973 – Jocelyne Bourassa wins LPGA Tour La Canadienne which became du Maurier Classic, an LPGA Tour major; first-place prize money – $10,000.
1973 - Johnny Miller wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Oakmont; first-place prize money – $35,000.
1979 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Tour Sarah Coventry Tournament; first-place prize money – $15,000.
1979 – Hale Irwin wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Inverness Club; first-place prize money – $50,000.
1984 – Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Tour Mayflower Classic; first-place prize money – $37,500.
1984 - Fuzzy Zoeller wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Winged Foot (West); first-place prize money – $94,000.
1984 – Miller Barber wins Senior PGA Tour Roy Clark/Skoal Bandit Senior Challenge; first-place prize money – $36,000.
1990 – Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tour Atlantic City Classic; first-place money – $45,000.
1990 – Hale Irwin wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Medinah CC; first-place money – $220,000.
1990 – Jim Dent wins Senior PGA Tour MONY Syracuse Senior Classic; first-place money – $60,000.
2007 – Angel Cabrera wins PGA Tour major U.S. Open at Oakmont CC; first-place money – $1,260,000.
2012 – Webb Simpson defeats Michael Thompson and Graeme McDowell by one shot to win 112th U.S. Open at The Olympic Club; first-place prize money – $1,440,000.
2012 – Darren Fichardt defeats Gary Lockerbie by three shots to win European Tour Saint-Omer Open in Lumbres, France; first-place prize money – $83,330.
Birthdays….
Pearl Sinn-Bonanni (45) of Seoul, South Korea; former LPGA Tour member; won LPGA Tour 1998 State Farm Rail Classic.
Mitzi Edge (52) of Albany, Ga.; former LPGA Tour member; career-best finish on LPGA Tour was tied for second at 1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Open.
Cathy Sherk (62) of Bancroft, Ontario; 1977 Canadian Women’s Amateur champion; former LPGA Tour member; career-best finish on LPGA Tour was second at 1981 American Defender/WRAL Classic; inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.
Judy Kimball-Simon (74) of Sioux City, Iowa; former LPGA Tour member; three-time winner on LPGA Tour, including major LPGA Championship in 1962.
