On January 6 in golf history — 1931: PGA Tour winner Dave Hill era born, plus 4 more moments from 1931–2007.
Dave Hill, a 13-time PGA Tour winner and outspoken figure of the 1960s and 1970s, was a prominent player of this generation.
Cesar Sanudo, a Mexican-American professional who won the 1970 Azalea Open on the PGA Tour, was born in this era.
Players born in the mid-1960s formed the backbone of European Ryder Cup teams through the 1990s and 2000s.
Golfers born in the mid-1980s, contemporaries of Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth's elders, populated the PGA Tour of the 2010s.
By the late 2000s the season-opening Tournament of Champions at Kapalua's Plantation Course had become a fixture of early-January golf in Hawaii.