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Events on Monday 27 May 1912 1
1912 – 2002Sam Snead (1912-2002)Died 23 May 2002, aged 89Sam Snead won a record 82 official PGA Tour titles and seven major championships between the 1930s and 1950s, celebrated for a smooth, powerful swing. The US Open was the one major that always eluded him. He kept playing competitively into his late sixties and remained a fixture at the Masters for decades.