1921 \u2014 Jim Barnes wins the U.S. Men\u2019s Open golf championship by edging Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Jock Hutchinson and Fred McLeod.<\/p>\n
1962 \u2014 Gary Player of South Africa becomes the first non-resident of the United States to win the PGA championship.<\/p>\n
1963 \u2014 Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in 2 minutes, 10 seconds of the first round to retain the world heavyweight title. Liston took the title from Patterson with a first-round knockout in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1962.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2014 Sue Berning wins the U.S. Women\u2019s Open golf championship for the third time with a five-stroke victory over Gloria Ahret.<\/p>\n
1984 \u2014 Kathy Whitworth becomes the all-time winner in professional golf tournaments by winning the Rochester Open. Whitworth, with 85 career wins, passes Sam Snead\u2019s total of 84 PGA tournament victories.<\/p>\n
1984 \u2014 Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open with a four-round 276, breaking the course record set by Ken Nagle in 1960 by two strokes. Tom Watson and Bernhard Langer finish two strokes behind.<\/p>\n
1990 \u2014 Nick Faldo wins his second British Open crown in four years, defeating Payne Stewart and Mark McNulty by five strokes.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey becomes first weightlifter in Olympic history to win three gold medals. Suleymanoglu wins the 141-pound division by hoisting 413\u00bc pounds.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads \u201cAbsolutely 100% Not Guilty\u201d of murder.<\/p>\n
1998 \u2014 Jackie Joyner-Kersee ends her brilliant heptathlon career with a victory at the Goodwill Games. It\u2019s her fourth consecutive Goodwill title. Earlier, the 4×400-meter relay world record of 2:54.29, set by the 1993 U.S. World Championship team, comes crashing down. Michael Johnson, the anchor on that 1993 team, anchors this United States 4×400 team, which finishes in a 2 minutes, 54.20 seconds.<\/p>\n
2001 \u2014 David Duval shoots a 4-under 67 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the British Open title, his first major championship. He finishes at 10-under 274 for a three-stroke victory over Sweden\u2019s Niclas Fasth.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Yelena Isinbayeva clears the 5-meter mark at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix in London for her latest world record. The Olympic champion easily clears 16 feet, 4\u00be inches on her first attempt, barely nudging the bar.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Padraig Harrington survives a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense putt for bogey on the final hole of a playoff to win the British Open over Sergio Garcia.<\/p>\n
2008 \u2014 Candace Parker scores 21 points and DeLisha Milton-Jones adds 19 before both are ejected after a scuffle in the final minute as the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Detroit Shock 84-81 at Auburn Hills, Mich. The WNBA game turns ugly in the final seconds as a collision between Parker and Detroit\u2019s Plenette Pierson turns into a shoving match that has players and coaches from both teams leaving the bench.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France by protecting the yellow jersey during the final processional ride into Paris. Fellow Briton and Sky teammate Christopher Froome finishes second, 3 minutes, 21 seconds behind.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Ernie Els wins his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Aussie bogeys the last four holes. Els, who starts the final round six shots behind, finishes off a flawless back nine with a 15-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 68. Scott was four shots ahead with four holes to play.<\/p>\n
2018 \u2014 Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird plays in a record 500th WNBA game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1921 \u2014 Jim Barnes wins the U.S. Men\u2019s Open golf championship by edging Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Jock…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":950071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[37868,382549,382545,21899,382546,29656,382548,262632,382544,297612,62289,382543,11418,382539,342354,382535,382542,382538,97163,382541,127436,223492,18637,382547,223490,322371,23535,382540,382534,62,382536,89707,138562,67,132,68,322517,232,382537],"class_list":["post-950070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-adam-scott","tag-bernhard-langer","tag-bradley-wiggins","tag-candace-parker","tag-christopher-froome","tag-david-duval","tag-delisha-milton-jones","tag-ernie-els","tag-floyd-patterson","tag-fred-mcleod","tag-gary-player","tag-gloria-ahret","tag-jackie-joyner-kersee","tag-jim-barnes","tag-kathy-whitworth","tag-ken-nagle","tag-leo-diegel","tag-mark-mcnulty","tag-michael-johnson","tag-naim-suleymanoglu","tag-nick-faldo","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-padraig-harrington","tag-plenette-pierson","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-sam-snead","tag-sergio-garcia","tag-sonny-liston","tag-sportlight-july-22","tag-sports","tag-sue-berning","tag-sue-bird","tag-tom-watson","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-walter-hagen","tag-wnba","tag-yelena-isinbayeva"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}