On May 28 in golf history — 1956: Jack Burke Jr. wins PGA Championship, plus 5 more moments from 1899–2017.
Scottish-born Willie Smith won the 1899 U.S. Open at Baltimore by 11 strokes, a record margin of victory that stood for decades.
Willie SmithJack Burke Jr. capped a remarkable 1956 by winning the PGA Championship at Blue Hill, adding to his Masters title earlier that spring.
Jack Burke Jr.Tom Watson, the dominant player of the late 1970s, won the Byron Nelson Golf Classic in Texas during a stretch of multiple Player of the Year awards.
Tom WatsonTom Lehman, who would win the 1996 Open Championship, captured the Colonial National Invitation in Fort Worth for a key PGA Tour title.
Tom LehmanPhil Mickelson won the MasterCard Colonial in Fort Worth, one of his many PGA Tour titles during a decorated career that produced six major championships.
Phil MickelsonKevin Kisner closed with a 67 to win the Dean & DeLuca Invitational at Colonial by one stroke for his second PGA Tour title.