Lou Graham

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Lou Graham
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name Louis Krebs Graham
Born (1938-01-07) January 7, 1938 (age 86)
Nashville, Tennessee
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st)
Nationality  United States
Career
College Memphis State University
Turned professional 1964
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
Champions Tour
Professional wins 7
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 6
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T6: 1977
U.S. Open Won: 1975
The Open Championship T47: 1975
PGA Championship T6: 1977

Louis Krebs Graham (born January 7, 1938) is an American professional golfer who won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open. Most of his wins were in the 1970s.

Lou Graham was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He started playing golf when he was seven years old. He attended Nashville's Father Ryan High School, and then Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played on the golf team for three years. Later, Graham was drafted into the U.S. Army. While in the Army, Graham served as a member of the Old Guard — Company E of the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment — the ceremonial Honor Guard that guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. During his Army career, he made the Army golf team that won the Inter-Service championship in 1961.

Graham joined the PGA Tour in September 1964. His first win was at the Minnesota Golf Classic at Hazeltine National Golf Club in 1967 during his third full year on the tour. Graham won again in 1972 at the Liggett Myers Open, followed by the U.S. Open in 1975. Graham had only three wins in fifteen years, and then in 1979, he won three more times in the space of eleven weeks. For this achievement, he won Golf Digest's 1979 Comeback of the Year award.[1]

Graham played on three Ryder Cup teams (1973, 1975, 1977), and was a member of the victorious 1975 World Cup Team. He was inducted as a charter member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in 1992. During his career, he won over $1.4 million on the PGA Tour and over $600,000 in Senior Tour career earnings.[1]

Graham's greatest success in major championships has been at the U.S. Open. He won in 1975 at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois beating John Mahaffey by two strokes in a playoff. In 1977, he finished 2nd – losing by one stroke to Hubert Green at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also had a previous T-3 finish at the Open in 1974.[2] On the Senior Tour (now known as the Champions Tour), his best finish was a T-3 at the AT&T Championship in 1990.

Professional wins (7)

PGA Tour wins (6)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of victory Runner(s)-up
1 Jul 30, 1967 Minnesota Golf Classic −2 (76-68-70-72=286) 1 stroke South Africa Bob Verwey
2 Aug 27, 1972 Liggett & Myers Open −3 (71-74-70-70=285) Playoff Australia David Graham, United States Hale Irwin,
United States Larry Ziegler
3 Jun 23, 1975 U.S. Open +3 (74-72-68-73=287) Playoff United States John Mahaffey
4 Jul 22, 1979 IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic −11 (68-70-71-64=273) Playoff United States Bobby Wadkins
5 Sep 9, 1979 American Optical Classic −9 (68-67-71-69=275) 1 stroke United States Ben Crenshaw
6 Oct 7, 1979 San Antonio Texas Open −12 (69-64-69-66=268) 1 stroke United States Eddie Pearce, United States Bill Rogers,
United States Doug Tewell

PGA Tour playoff record (3–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1971 Greater Hartford Open United States George Archer, United States J. C. Snead Archer won with birdie on first extra hole
2 1972 Liggett & Myers Open Australia David Graham, United States Hale Irwin,
United States Larry Ziegler		 Won with birdie on third extra hole
D. Graham and Ziegler eliminated with par on first hole
3 1975 U.S. Open United States John Mahaffey Won 18-hole playoff (Graham:71, Mahaffey:73)
4 1979 IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic United States Bobby Wadkins Won with birdie on first extra hole

Major championship is shown in bold.

Other wins (1)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year Championship 54 holes Winning score Margin Runner-up
1975 U.S. Open 4 shot deficit +3 (74-72-68-73=287) Playoff1 United States John Mahaffey

1Defeated Mahaffey in an 18-hole playoff – Graham 71 (E), Mahaffey 73 (+2).

Results timeline

Tournament 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
U.S. Open CUT CUT 23 CUT T28 DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T8 CUT
Tournament 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Masters Tournament DNP CUT DNP T17 CUT T40 T12 T6 CUT T23
U.S. Open T46 T37 T19 CUT T3 1 T28 2 T35 T25
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T47 DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship T22 CUT T33 T30 T48 T54 T22 T6 CUT T10
Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Masters Tournament T26 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open T51 CUT T39 T50 CUT CUT
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship CUT CUT DNP T42 DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 6
U.S. Open 1 1 1 3 3 6 21 14
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 3 5 15 10
Totals 1 1 1 3 7 15 47 31
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (1974 U.S. Open – 1977 U.S. Open)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 3 (1977 Masters – 1977 PGA)

U.S. national team appearances

Professional

See also

References

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External links

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