Lou Graham

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1 PGA Tour wins (6)
2 Other regular career wins (1)
3 Results in major championships
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Louis Krebs "Lou" Graham (born January 7, 1938) is an American professional golfer who has participated in and won numerous golf 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 Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played on the schools 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 and 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. ^[2]

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. ^[3] On the Senior Tour (now known as the Champions Tour), his best finish was a T-3 at the AT&T Championship in 1990.

[edit] PGA Tour wins (6)

1967 (1) Minnesota Golf Classic
1972 (1) Liggett and Meyers Open
1975 (1) U.S. Open
1979 (3) San Antonio Texas Open, IVB Philadelphia Golf Classic, American Optical Classic

Major championship is shown in bold.

[edit] Other regular career wins (1)

1975 World Cup (with Johnny Miller)

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Masters	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
The Masters	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