This week in history

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Take a look at key moments in Champions Tour and PGA TOUR history that occurred on these dates in the past:

In 1998 Lee Trevino captured his seventh victory in Texas. (Greenwood/WireImage)

3/29/87 -- Critical birdies on Nos. 15 and 18 helped Sandy Lyle grab a spot in a playoff at the Tournament Players Championship and a par on the third playoff hole was good enough to defeat Jeff Sluman near Jacksonville.

3/29/98 -- Lee Trevino wins a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event in the state of Texas for the seventh time when he is a two-stroke victor over Mike McCullough at the Southwestern Bell Dominion in San Antonio. It is the third time he won the title (others in 1991, 1992).

3/30/86 -- John Mahaffey defeats Larry Mize by a stroke to win the Tournament Players Championship (THE PLAYERS Championship). Mahaffey moved into contention with a third-round 65 and the round included eight birdies at the TPC Sawgrass.

3/31/74 -- Lee Trevino shoots four consecutive rounds in the 60s, including a final-round 65, and rolls to an eight-stroke victory over Bobby Cole and Ben Crenshaw at the Greater New Orleans Open. Cole and Trevino were tied for the lead after 54 holes.

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4/1/79 -- Tom Watson wins the first of two Sea Pines Heritage Classic titles when he posts consecutive rounds of 65 to open a three-stroke margin after 36 holes. He would go on to a five-stroke victory over Ed Sneed at Hilton Head for the first of five wins that year.

4/2/00 -- In just his fifth start on the Champions Tour, Tom Kite outlasts Larry Nelson and Tom Watson to win The Countrywide Tradition. After Nelson went out on the second hole, Kite and Watson went four additional holes before Kite's birdie gave him the win.

4/3/94 -- Raymond Floyd wins the first of four major championships on the Champions Tour when he birdies the first extra hole to defeat Dale Douglass at The Tradition in Arizona. Floyd got himself into the playoff when he birdied three of his final four holes at Desert Mountain.

4/4/99 -- Graham Marsh is declared the winner of The Tradition when the event is shortened to 36 holes due to snow and inclement weather in Scottsdale. Rounds were contested on Thursday and Saturday.

4/5/87 -- Scott Simpson makes just two bogeys over the weekend and goes on to a two-stroke win over Clarence Rose at the Greater Greensboro Open. Simpson makes just three bogeys over his final 61 holes.

4/5/98 -- Gil Morgan successfully defends his Tradition title, coming from two back to defeat Tom Wargo in Scottsdale.