On October 11 in golf history — 2020: Martin Laird wins Shriners in playoff, plus 4 more moments from 1873–2020.
Tom Vardon, a course architect and brother of six-time Open champion Harry Vardon, was born around this time on the island of Jersey. He finished runner-up at the 1903 Open.
Greg Chalmers, a two-time Australian Open champion who won the 2016 Barracuda Championship for his first PGA Tour title, was born on this day in Sydney.
In the mid-1980s Nick Faldo undertook a famous rebuild of his swing under coach David Leadbetter, a project that would lead to six major championships.
Nick FaldoMichelle Wie West, a child prodigy who won the 2014 U.S. Women's Open and helped popularize the women's game worldwide, was born on this day in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Scotland's Martin Laird won the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin in a playoff, ending a long victory drought on the PGA Tour.