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Nov. 9 in Masters history
1965: During a visit to Augusta National former President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized at Fort Gordon Army Hospital. Weeks later he will be transferred to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.
Clifford Roberts, in his book “The Story of the Augusta National Golf Club,” said the former president and his wife had gone to Aiken for a private supper with old friends and then returned to their golf club residence.
Sometime after midnight, Eisenhower began to suffer chest pains and several Augusta doctors, some members of the club, were called.
Roberts also acknowledged Augusta’s St. Joseph Hospital, which quickly loaned Fort Gordon a heart monitor-defibrillator, said to be the only one in the area.
“It might have been the means of saving General Ike’s life,” Roberts wrote.
1988: Secretary of State George Schulz arrives to play at Augusta National. A member of the private golf club, he is said to pay his own travel expenses for his visits.
1942: Sixteen-time Masters competitor Tom Weiskopf is born in Massilon, Ohio. Although he would never win the Augusta tournament, he finished second four times and was a seven-time top 10 finisher.
He did win the British Open in 1973.