Today’s Sports Magazine, July 23 – Tiger Woods (age 24) becomes the youngest player to win a career Grand Slam title.
After acquiring the UK’s open golf championship on July 23, 2000 on the St. and Wrights’s St. and Wright Old Course, the United States kissed Kubusinkraretto. At 24, he also became the youngest player to win a career Grand Slam.
1907 – Australasia beats the British Isles 3-2 to win the Davis Cup at Wimbledon. Australasia wins the David Cup for the first time, ending the British Isles’ four-year reign.
1921 – At the annual Harvard-Yale tournament, During the Cambridge-Oxford meet at Harvard Stadium, Harvard’s Edward Gordan became the first athlete to achieve a long jump of 25 feet. Harvard listed Gordan’s jump as 25 feet 3 inches, but the official USA Track and Field record is 25 feet 2 inches. 1960 – Betsy Rawls becomes the first woman to win the U.S. Women’s Golf Championship four times.
1966 – John Pennell pole vaults to a new world record, 17 feet, 6 1/4 inches, at a meet in Los Angeles. This was the eighth of nine world records he set during his career in the tournament, his first since 1963.
1976 – The final NFL All-Star Game was held, but was shortened when a thunderstorm hit Chicago. The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the All-Stars, 24-0.
1978 – Hollis Stacy wins her second consecutive U.S. Women’s Open. 1989 — Mark Calcavecchia wins the British Open, edging Greg Norman and Wayne Grady in a three-way playoff. Calcavecchia, the first American to win the Open in five years, birdied three of the four playoff holes. 1989 – Greg LeMond wins his second Tour de France with the closest finish in history, 8 seconds ahead of Laurent Fignon. LeMond started the day 50 seconds behind Fignon and won the final stage, a 15-mile time trial from Versailles to Paris, in 26:57. Fignon finished the stage 58 seconds behind.
1995 — John Daly wins the British Open at St. Andrews by four strokes in a four-hole playoff against Costantino Rocca of Italy. Rocca sinks a 65-foot putt on the 18th hole to book a playoff.
1995 – Spaniard Miguel Indurain wins the Tour de France for the fifth consecutive year. Indurain joins Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault as the other five-time winners.
2000 — Tiger Woods, at 24, becomes the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Woods finished with a 3-under 69 for a total of 19-under 269, the lowest score relative to par in a major championship.
2000 — 87th Tour de France: No winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified).
2006 — Tiger Woods, one month after missing the cut for the first time in a major, becomes the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2006 — Floyd Landis, pedaling with an injured hip, cruises to victory in the Tour de France, keeping cycling’s most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year. 2009 — Mark Buehle pitches the 18th perfect game in major league history in a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.
2012 — Penn State nearly matches the sanctions imposed by the NCAA for its handling of allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The NCAA imposes an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play, and a reduction in the number of football scholarships that can be awarded.
2017 – British cyclist Chris Froome wins his fourth Tour de France. 2019 – Nike’s Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA Draft No. 1 pick Zion Williamson to the richest multi-year endorsement deal ever for a rookie, estimated to be worth $75 million over seven years.
2021 – The opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be held after a one-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 — The Cleveland Indians announce the team will be re-named the Guardians.
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