On this day in 1945, a grateful Britain, still partying at the end of the WWII like it was an extended hen-night, heard the crackly news announced from Royal and Ancient HQ in St Andrews that 'normal golf service shall resume'.
This meant that the Open Championships, cancelled from 1940-45 due to the war, would be played at St Andrews again the next summer (won by Sam Snead), and where it had last been played in 1939, won by Richard Burton (not the actor). Touchingly, in the spring of 1946, Burton wrote to the R&A, 'Dear Sirs, Please find enclosed my fee of five guineas for this year's Open. I will bring the trophy back when I come.'